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Badge tracks whatever that last branch built

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Jay Tuley

25 Feb, 2014 04:06 AM

This is an issue if I update that gh-pages branch that is not build-able, it puts an erroneous failed badge on my github page.

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 25 Feb, 2014 04:18 AM

   

   Hi Jay,

   You can use [skip ci] when committing changes to that branch (http://www.appveyor.com/docs2/how-to/skip-build).

   Also, I think we should ignore "gh-pages" branch by default and also add branches filter to project settings.

   Thanks for the catch! I'm going to add working item.

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2. Support Staff 2 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 25 Feb, 2014 04:26 AM

   

   Wait, another idea. What if AppVeyor should display badge for master (default branch) only?

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3. 3 Posted by Jay Tuley on 25 Feb, 2014 02:58 PM

   

   Travis-ci actually makes a different badge url for each branch.

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4. 4 Posted by jay on 25 Feb, 2014 03:06 PM

   

   Oh I do also think you should exclude gh-pages or just have a mechansim to exclude or explicitly specify branches. I don't want to do ci skip everytime on gh-pages.

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5. Support Staff 5 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 25 Feb, 2014 03:08 PM

   

   Sure, we'll fix that shortly.

   Thanks!

   - Feodor

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6. Support Staff 6 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 26 Feb, 2014 05:27 AM

   

   Hi Jay,

   AppVeyor update has been deployed with improved badges logic.

   To specify branch in badge URL append /branch/<branch-name> to the URL you see on Badges tab of project settings, for example:

   https://ci-beta.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/5y6ic907jh8u27j5/branch/master
   

   If branch IS specified badge shows the status of latest build of this branch; if branch IS NOT specified then badge shows the status of the last build of any branch.

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7. Support Staff 7 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 26 Feb, 2014 05:32 AM

   

   Also, branches white-/blacklisting was added. You can specify included/excluded branches on General tab of project settings.

   To specify the list of branches in appveyor.yml:

   branches:
     only:
       - master
       - production
   

   To specify the list of branches that must be ignored:

   branches:
     except:
       - /dev.*/
       - playground
   

   gh-pages branch is always excluded unless explicitly added in "only" list.

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8. 8 Posted by jay on 27 Feb, 2014 02:19 PM

   

   Cool, yay!

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9. 9 Posted by Sebastien on 15 May, 2014 04:49 AM

   

   You should add a reference to this topic on the Badges page. This is very useful.

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10. 10 Posted by James Foster on 17 Jun, 2014 04:22 PM

    

    Being able to specify a branch name for a status badge is great. However, I'm having some trouble with branches with a / in the name. for example feature/my-feature

    Also, if I specify a branch that doesn't exist, instead of getting a 404 {message doesn't exist"} I get the status badge for the latest build.

    Thanks

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11. Support Staff 11 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 17 Jun, 2014 04:34 PM

    

    Have you tried encoding slash with %2F?

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12. 12 Posted by James Foster on 17 Jun, 2014 07:14 PM

    

    Yes

    Sent from my iPhone

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13. Support Staff 13 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 17 Jun, 2014 07:15 PM

    

    OK, will take a look what's wrong.

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14. Support Staff 14 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 17 Jun, 2014 07:26 PM

    

    It's been fixed and will be go with the next update.

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15. 15 Posted by James Foster on 18 Jun, 2014 12:57 AM

    

    That's great. Thanks

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16. Support Staff 16 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 18 Jun, 2014 04:01 AM

    

    Update has been deployed. Should be OK now.

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17. 17 Posted by James Foster on 19 Jun, 2014 10:44 AM

    

    Thanks Feodor

    It's now picking up our feature branches correctly. However, if the branch name doesn't exist or isn't found it's still returning the default badge.

    This really should return a 404 with some error status because going to feature/i-think-it-exists and seeing a shiny green success icon could be very confusing.

    Thanks

    James

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18. Support Staff 18 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 19 Jun, 2014 02:27 PM

    

    Will take a look.

    - Feodor

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19. Ilya Finkelshteyn closed this discussion on 25 Aug, 2018 01:45 AM.