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james.carter

16 Jan, 2015 05:57 PM

I have two Projects pointing at the same repository, with the Branches to build set to Only branches below.

Each Project is set with a single Branch name, however when I check in on either branch it for some reason causes both Projects to fire their build steps.

Please could you look at my Projects and investigate?

Thank you.

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 16 Jan, 2015 06:04 PM

   

   Hi James,

   Do you have appveyor.yml in the repo?

   -Feodor

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2. 2 Posted by james.carter on 16 Jan, 2015 06:06 PM

   

   Hi Feodor,

     I do, I used to have both these branches building from one Project using this syntax:

   -
     branches:
       only:
         - branch1
   -
     branches:
       only:
         - branch2

     However I want to use the Deployments feature now, so that I can build a version of Live or Test, and deploy to each Environment when I need too.

     I assume it is that is causing the issue then?

     I still want different build configurations for each branch/project, that are easiest specified in the yml.

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 16 Jan, 2015 06:08 PM

   

   Yeah, if you have appveyor.yml UI settings are ignored. The only exception is environment variables and notifications.

   -Feodor

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4. 4 Posted by james.carter on 16 Jan, 2015 06:10 PM

   

   So to clarify, if I want per branch settings, and both Projects are pointing at the same repository, the only option is to remove the branch specific yml settings and put these in the Project?

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5. Support Staff 5 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 16 Jan, 2015 06:12 PM

   

   You can have per-branch settings in YML as you shown in your previous post.

   -Feodor

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6. 6 Posted by james.carter on 16 Jan, 2015 06:22 PM

   

   I have removed the per branch settings in the YML and moved them into the Project configurations.

   However when I do a push to my Git repository, both Projects start building, despite there not being a branch specific YML and the Default and Only branch settings are set correctly.

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7. Support Staff 7 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 16 Jan, 2015 06:25 PM

   

   Yes, this is because there is still YML in repo. Set "Ignore appveyor.yml" on project settings.

   -Feodor

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8. 8 Posted by james.carter on 16 Jan, 2015 06:28 PM

   

   Hi Feodor,

     I see that by ignoring the YML it stops Projects building on branches they are not configured too, but my general YML settings are then ignored.

     Is it now the case that I cannot use a YML file if I have multiple Projects pointed at the same Branch?

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9. Support Staff 9 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 16 Jan, 2015 06:34 PM

   

   Right, if it's the same branch you can't. Obviously, there is no other way to separate them.

   -Feodor

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10. 10 Posted by james.carter on 16 Jan, 2015 06:40 PM

    

    Hi Feodor,

     Right, so I've removed the appveyor.yml in favour of having both Projects building each branch independently. All working now. Thanks for your help!

      Just for feedback I love AppVeyor and the speed, reliability and ease it deals with my CI process.

    Best regards,
    James

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11. james.carter closed this discussion on 16 Jan, 2015 06:40 PM.