Visibility of pending commits/changes

[Andrew Finch]

Is there an easy way to view pending commits which have yet to be built.  I'm aware you can view commits for each run in the commits tab.  We have moved form TeamCity which showed all pending commits within the main dashboard.  This allowed us to easily see which builds were up to date and which had pending changes.  I currently have a manually triggered build and have non built changes but have no visibility of this through the UI.

[Daniel Santos]

Hi @Andrew Finch

The easiest way I know will still involve some manual steps. You would need to check the latest build revision and run a diff between that revision and the one in head. 
Bamboo does not have such feature and it seems that not a lot of users request that. I say that because we have an old feature request open for it and it does not have votes:

• [BAM-2822] Show outstanding/unbuilt changes

Usually, what we do in Bamboo, is configuring a build to be triggered when the changes arrive. Assuming we are ignoring changes in files and folders we don't want to consider (using git ignore and the exclude changesets feature), we would have builds only when necessary. You should not need to manually check when a build can run. Ideally, Bamboo should check the repositories for you and build them when necessary. 
Does it make sense to you?

[Andrew Finch]

Thanks Daniel, yes that all makes sense and was effectively what I was doing to compare changes.  The majority of our builds use triggers but some are built daily so still an issue. 

[Daniel Santos]

Hi @Andrew Finch

I'm not sure how can I help you further, maybe if you share why you need such a setting. More details would help me to check if we could do something else to help you with this.

Please add your vote and set yourself as a watcher in the feature request I shared. That seems to be the right feature to attack this need.