Unique Source Control Actions

Do you have a sample action that requests the build's current source control provider?

Apologies if this is a "lazy" question, I'm only thinking about it for a "nice-to-have" "icing-on-the-cake" feature idea.

Essentially I've taken our customized version of the GitHub extension (I've been very slowly working through the legal details on what it might take to send a pull request or three) and made it so that for ApplyLabel instead of adding a git tag to the repository on the agent it instead uses the GitHub API to create a Release in "Prerelease" status. This is actually pretty nifty as it cleans up the Releases page in GitHub considerably. It's also nice because I have it check for an existing tag/release, rather than erroring on tag/release creation. The "icing-on-the-cake" would be a deployment action for Production deploys to mark the promoted build as "Stable" and probably remove the build number from the GitHub release title (change the semver-based release name from "v1.0+89" to just "v1.0").

Product: BuildMaster
Version: 4.1.3

Hi Max,

That sounds like a great idea.

Unfortunately, there is no SC Provider that is associated with a particular build; that is, there'd be no way (aside from looking at logs) to know which ProviderIds were used in deployment plans executed over a build's lifecycle.

You could capture this as a variable, however.

If you haven't already, make sure to see how the SourceControlProviderActionBase actions work; you can find their code thru a decompiler (BuildMasterExtensions assembly), or just ask for it and we'll email you.

Hope that helps,

Alex