Check out a Git tag in Bamboo

[Bryan Dyck]

Is it possible to create a Bamboo build plan that pulls from a Git repo and then check out a specific tag? I don't see any facility for doing so but I may just be missing something obvious...

Thanks!

[PiotrA]

How about specifing your tag in the "Source Repository -> Git -> Branch" field? In the plan configuration? Or maybe specyfing whole ref like "refs/tags/myTag-1.5.6"... Is that doing the trick?

I remember that was working long time ago, somewhere around Bamboo 3.x version...

[Bryan Dyck]

Unfortunately, that's not an option if your source repository type is set to 'GitHub' - there is only a pre-populated menu of branches that the remote repo knows about and no facility for entering a tag (either by name or ref).

I can work around it by pulling from the repository as I normally would and then adding a build step that explicitly executes 'git checkout <tag_name>', but that seems... inelegant, especially in the situation where you want to recreate a build from a particular point in time (e.g. for regressing bugs); normally, I'd want to just build from the master branch.

I guess I was hoping there might be more "native" support for tags... :)

[PiotrA]

Ah I see... Then indeed, the "native" GitHub repository in Bamboo doesn't detect and support git tags. Though technically it shouldn't be very hard to implement (I'm speaking from a position of a person who had touched the relevant source code in Bamboo).

If you would like to see the support for tags in the GH repository type in Bamboo I would suggest you one of following:

1) hack the bamboo-git-plugin to retrieve from GH also tags

2) raise a 'feature improvement' issue on http://jira.atlassian.com (in the Bamboo project)

I'm not sue which solutions is more feasible. Anyway, if you need help with one or another - please yell :)

regards,