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'Shared' settings for appveyor.yml with conditional branches.

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sebastian

04 Jul, 2015 07:53 AM

AppVeyor can handily take care of different build and deployment configurations for different branches by using a Conditional build configuration as described here 'http://www.appveyor.com/docs/branches#conditional-build-configurati...;.

What would be cool would be if we could declare configuration settings that are common outside the branch conditions, like so:

#do something in every build regardless of branch
init:
   - do some init stuff

# do the following only for master branch
-
  branches:
    only:
      - master

  configuration: Release
  deploy:
    provider: AzureCS
 
# do the following only for 'dev' branches
-
  branches:
    only:
      - /dev-.*/

  deploy:
    provider: Local

Not sure how much effort this is to implement, but it would sure make our appveyor files neater, easier to declare conventions.

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 05 Jul, 2015 08:57 PM

   

   Sounds like a nice idea. The only note here is that you can't mix hashes and lists on the same level. It should be something like:

   # common for all branches
   init:
   - do_something.cmd
   
   # branch-specific
   for:
     - branches:
         only:
           - master
       configuration: Release
       deploy:
         provider: AzureCS
     # do the following only for 'dev' branches
     - branches:
         only:
           - /dev-.*/
       deploy:
         provider: Local
   

   Don't know if for looks intuitive - feel free to suggest variants. The idea of inclusions was captured here, but I'll created a new issue: https://github.com/appveyor/ci/issues/325

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2. 2 Posted by sebastian on 06 Jul, 2015 08:13 AM

   

   Uuh `for` seems okay o me... If you want something more specific to the
   actual function of the block maybe `case` or `override` might work too.

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 07 Jul, 2015 06:32 PM

   

   case sounds good too.

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4. Ilya Finkelshteyn closed this discussion on 25 Aug, 2018 01:57 AM.