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Re1ter
Re1ter

Reputation: 399

Get the name of a branch in the Azure Devops Pipeline

I have a project using multiple repositories:

resources:
  repositories:
  - repository: one
    type: git
    name: repo/one
    ref: release
  - repository: two
    type: git
    name: repo/two
    ref: develop
  - repository: three
    type: git
    name: repo/three
    ref: master

How do I get the environment variables for each of these repositories in subsequent steps? For example, I'm interested in the variable $(Build.BuildNumber). Now I only get the variable for the branch from which the yaml project itself is launched.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3578

Answers (1)

Andriy Bilous
Andriy Bilous

Reputation: 2522

The repository keyword in resources lets you specify external repositories.

When you check out multiple repositories, some details about the self repository are available as Predefined variables

When you use multi-repo triggers, some of those variables have information about the triggering repository instead. Details about all of the repositories consumed by the job are available as a template context object called resources.repositories

To get the environment variables for each of these repositories you need to define variable:

Example:

resources:
  repositories:
  - repository: other
    type: git
    name: MyProject/OtherTools

variables:
  tools.ref: $[ resources.repositories['other'].ref ]

steps:
- checkout: self
- checkout: other
- bash: |
    echo "Tools version: $(tools.ref)"

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/repos/multi-repo-checkout?view=azure-devops#repository-details

Upvotes: 2

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