Bamboo repository, change detection, include files

Question

Hi, I want my Bamboo build plan to pick up changes to a specific subdirectory of my Bitbucket server repository, but it does not ever trigger a build.

The repository structure is:

/
  base/
  app1/
  app2/

I have a build plan per subdirectory. The patterns I've tried are:

base/.*
^base/.*
/base/.*
^/base/.*

I've also tried the above, escaping the slashes '/' with a backslash '\'. No luck.

I've seen an examples document and several other community questions on the subject, but it is not clear whether the file names start with '/', or what I could be  missing.

Product versions:

* Bamboo 6.3.0 build 60304
* Bitbucket v5.6.1

Thanks in advance!

Michal Bryxí_9lebfv · Answer

Oh that's cool. This is such underloved problem that in the meantime my company migrated away to different CI 🙃

Angel Ruiz_m6y0h0 · Answer

Documentation around this topic is very bad, In one place they tell you to use something like `foo.bar/**` and in the inline help of the field they tell you to use Java regex patterns where `**` is not allowed.

In order to detect only the changes in a particular sub-directory of your repo the regex should look something like `subdir\/.*`.

Cheers.

PS: I cannot believe that in this day and age Markdown is not supported for comments.

Jeyanthan I · Answer

Could it be that the commit message has some extra special characters that are not visible and is escaping from the regular expression?

Perhaps enabling DEBUG to this class might reveal more information in your server log.

com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.trigger.DefaultChangeDetectionManager=DEBUG
com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.stash.events=DEBUG
com.atlassian.bamboo.plan.branch=ALL
com.atlassian.bamboo.build.strategy=DEBUG

Cheers,
Jey