I'm new to Gitlab API, I know how to create a tag on a specific branch, let's say I have several branches on my repository, and I created several tags on each branch. Now I want get all the tags on a specific branch with GitLabAPI. I've read the Branchs API and Tags API docs carefully, however was unable to find an answer to my question. Please help me out.
I am unsure what you're trying to accomplish as you literally described your problem with one short sentence, so it will be more of a guess.
If what you want to do is to create GitLab tag for a specific commit for a specific branch, you simply do that as you can define branch when creating it. Will not post description of how it should be done as there is documentation.
With GitLabAPI(as you wanted based on you problem description) follow this link:
How to with GitLabAPI
And instead of Release tag just make same steps for any other tag. For tagging from console you should follow this one:
How to with git
If you're looking for a way to find specific tag with GitLabAPI just go that way:
Repository->Tags->Filter by tag name
Tags are unique across the whole repository.
For doing checkout from console:
git checkout <tag>
Your consternation, I believe, comes from misunderstanding the idea of tags. It's kind of a snapshot of repository at specific point, might be for release, may be for backup purposes, does not matter, it's up to you. Important part is that no matter where you will place it, it has to be unique in scope of a whole repository not just a branch you place it. There is no way to create two same tags on two different branches, git won't let you. Read info from links and everything should be clear.
If my answer is not what you were looking for, expand your question to get more proper and accurate one.
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For pull requests in AzureDevops, im using ALWAYS the branch name as Pull reqeust title.
How can i set the branch name as default value for title?
I don't wanna type it again always :-)
I've checked the pull request templates, but am not able to make it for the title
The only way that I can think of is the use of TamperMonkey, there are lot of custom scripts around. This solution has the disadvantage that tampermonkey has to be installed in each browser individually.
I searched several sources but couldn't find the exact thing, but I think if you know Javascript you can get inspired quickly by stuff like this:
https://gist.github.com/2xAA/e7e91dfe2fb48fb5bdcb5403c3ddce43
https://gist.github.com/robie2011/f1d5735855d5809d88b1b987e0fd2cec
I'm new to GitLab ci and I was curious if something could be done inside the .gitlab-ci.yml. For our project we want two different things to happen dependent on two actions. For instance, when a new file is added to the master branch we want Job1 to run. However, when a file is updated in the master branch we would like Job2 to run instead.
Based on reading through Gitlab's documentation on ci/cd it looks like you could do this by using variables and rules.
So, would this be possible inside the yml file or would you have to go about it another way?
Thank you for your replies.
As you might have already noticed there is a rule named changes which you could try out. If that's not sufficient you still could execute something like git diff-tree inside a container and then decide what to do.
I doubt that you can do it directly with a conditional over a file because the commit push (which is the action that triggers the pipeline containing the job, ultimately) could contain several files.
Having said that, you have a bunch of predefined variables with information about the commit itself, so maybe you can agree with the team on a commit description template for when they add a file and another one for the case of the update. Then you can easily use rules to determine which job has to run. For this particular case, you will be using the CI_COMMIT_DESCRIPTION variable.
You can also base your condition on a tag, but I think that it will make the repository too dirty.
I know that it is easy to forget the rule, but still, it is an easy workaround.
The scenario is as follows: A user has opened a merge request that adds a new feature to my code. Their code however contains a few bugs. I know how to fix the appropriate parts but I'd prefer keeping my repository free of code that has known issues. Therefore I'd like to modify their code before merging it.
I know I could also manually copy over the changes but I would still like to give the user that opened the merge request credit for their contribution.
You could take the user's changes (pull them over to your development environment) using Git, and then add your changes, and then merge the lot -- this way your user's commits are visible, and your commits are visible.
You could also add your user to a CREDITS file to give them credit as a contributor.
You could also ask the user to fix the bugs (which helps the user too, to learn how to improve their code) and then merge the change.
Since the last update of our self-hosted gitlab component, the assignee changes are not logged anymore on any merge request.
Just like so : (taken from Gitlab documentation)
Not only it allows to see the exact workflow but it can also gives informations on the timeline of these changes. All these were very helpfull.
I've searched in the changelog but it dosen't seem to be listed.
Here is my question :
Is it possible go get it back and if so, how ?
Thanks a lot in advance
You have probably hidden the activities. At the beginning of the events, where there are tabs for Discussion, Pipelines, Commits, and Changes, there is a dropdown where you can filter out some activities. You just need to select "Show all activity", or whatever fits you best
How can I search for code fragments on github.com? When I search for MSG_PREPARE in the repository ErikZalm/Marlin github shows up nothing.
I'm using the repository code search syntax described on https://github.com/search with
repo:ErikZalm/Marlin MSG_PREPARE
No results, but MSG_PREPARE can be found inside this repository here. Am I missing something? Is there no code search on github.com?
At the time of writing this answer, compared to time this question was asked i.e. about 8 years ago, github has come a good way, though still not to the length which you are looking at.
GitHub code searches are limited on the following rules: https://docs.github.com/en/github/searching-for-information-on-github/searching-code . Quoting the same:
Code in forks is only searchable if the fork has more stars than the parent repository.
Forks with fewer stars than the parent repository are not indexed for code search.
To include forks with more stars than their parent in the search results, you will need to add fork:true or fork:only to your query.
For more information, see "Searching in forks."
So we can search within the fork using the fork:true option, though as expected, since the repo ErikZalm/Marlin is low on star count as compared to parent MarlinFirmware/Marlin, the code in the fork is still not indexed. Hence the advance search shows no good except a match to the repo.
Though, if you perform the same search on the parent, it would show the matches on the code. Here are the matches for MSG_PREPARE in the parent repo MarlinFirmware/Marlin
Fortunately, one company which I know working on this domain is SourceGraph: https://about.sourcegraph.com/
Hence, you can easily search what you intended with SourceGraph:
Here are the matches for MSG_PREPARE in the ErikZalm/Marlin using SourceGraph Cloud
Update July 2013: "Preview the new Search API"
The GitHub search API on code now supports fragments, through text-match metadata.
Some API consumers will want to highlight the matching search terms when displaying search results. The API offers additional metadata to support this use case. To get this metadata in your search results, specify the text-match media type in your Accept header. For example, via curl, the above query would look like this:
curl -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github.preview.text-match+json' \
https://api.github.com/search/code?q=octokit+in:file+extension:gemspec+-repo:octokit/octokit.rb&sort=indexed
This produces the same JSON payload as above, with an extra key called text_matches, an array of objects. These objects provide information such as the position of your search terms within the text, as well as the property that included the search term.
Original answer (November 2012)
I don't think there is anything that you would have missed.
If you search for SdFile, you would find results in .pde file, but none in cpp files like in this SdFile.cpp file.
The search was introduced 4 years ago (November 2008), but, as mentioned in "Search a github repository for the file defining a given function", GitHub repository code is simply not fully indexed.