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Less code duplication in appveyor.yml when using branches.only?

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saper

09 Sep, 2015 11:55 AM

Full appveyor.yml file

I have two very similar configurations (release/testing) which differ only by the range of platforms (testing does only x86 for speed), and also the "testing" configuration should not do deployment and artifacts.

I had to copy paste the existing YML twice, indent and add configuration: stanzas.

Is there any better way to have a shared or "fall through" configuration ? I still would like to have
a possibility to define a configuration that gets invoked when none of the branches rules batch.

Something along those lines:

-
  branches:
   only:
     - release

  configuration: release
  deploy: ....
  continue: shared

-
  configuration: testing
       continue: shared

       # no deploy
-
   branches:
        never

   configuration: shared

Besides, list syntax of YAML is very unreadable when used with the branches.only feature - I was trying to get a syntax right only to notice I have to put a "-" (minus) in the first column, and indent the rest.

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1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 09 Sep, 2015 08:57 PM

   

   Thanks for your suggestion!

   Looks like the similar request: https://github.com/appveyor/ci/issues/325

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2. 2 Posted by saper on 09 Sep, 2015 10:21 PM

   

   Closing this in favour of https://github.com/appveyor/ci/issues/325 and http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/suggestions/728-shared-setting..., thank you.

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3. saper closed this discussion on 09 Sep, 2015 10:21 PM.