Trigger build for new tag on Git-Repo

Continua CI Bugs
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Hi Support-Team,
I had some problems with detecting tags from a Git-repository. What I wanted to have is that my configureation should trigger a new build when it detects a new tag on my git repo based on the tagged commit.
For this i created following configuration:

Git-Repository

  • Branches: Branches to monitor: All branches
  • Tags: Tag Changes: Detect
Trigger on my configuration
  • Trigger: Type: Repository
  • Repository: Quiet Period: 0
  • Trigger Branch: Trigger on: All branches
  • Trigger Branch: Skip commits previously build by this trigger: off
  • Tags: Trigger: Tag changes for matching pattern
  • Tags: Tag Pattern: ‘^(\d+).(\d+).(\d+)(\w*)$$’ (I want only tags like ‘1.3.22’ or 1.2.3hf1’)
  • Tags: Trigger on new tags: on
  • Tags: build tagged changeset: on
  • Tags: Only trigger on tag changes: on

Now I pushed some tags to my repo but in many cases the tag was not recognized (in some cases i got a new commit-changeset with message ‘Inserted ligthweight tag ‘…’’ - i tried also on my repo the setting Tags: Tag changes: Detect and list as new changeset) and in most cases the build did not worked on the tagged changeset but on my master (the tags i created were on other commits).

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Hi Albrecht,

Thank you for reporting this. The tag detection was broken when making changes to deal with duplicates in the previous version. Please download version 1.8.1.689 and let us know whether this fixes your issue. Note that “Tag changes” need to be set to “Detect and list as new changeset” to trigger builds from a tag. 


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Hi Dave,
I checkt your new version and now the tags are detected correct and the builds are triggered.
The problem that I have now is that when I’m building triggered by a new tag $Source.Repo.Tag$ and $Source.Repo.BuildChangesset.Tagnames$ are not evaluated. Logging this expressions returns a empty result.

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Hi Albrecht,

Thanks again for your report. We have now made some changes so that the $Source.Repo.BuiltChangeset$ has details of the correct changeset when built from a tag change trigger.

Note that $Source.Repo.Tag$ should only contain a tag name if the build is started for a tag e.g. a tag name is selected in the Queue Options dialog.

You can download the updated build using the following links:.