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Baharul
Baharul

Reputation: 143

Checkout different Repository as per input in Azure Pipeline

I am trying to checkout repository in Azure pipeline which is different then self repo but in same Organization. Here repository name and project name will be passed as input parameter .

I have tried by following example in https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/repos/multi-repo-checkout?view=azure-devops but not able to pass with parameter.

I have tried with syntex as below, but not get success.

 resources:
   repositories:
   - repository: MyAzureReposGitRepository
     type: git
     name: $(project)/$(repo)
     ref: $(branch)

Also have tried like

- checkout: git://${{ variables.repoName}}@${{ variables.branchRef }}

But here getting error at time of running pipeline

The String must have at least one character. Parameter name:repositoryName

Please help if you have any other way to make it success.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5888

Answers (2)

Leo Liu
Leo Liu

Reputation: 76928

Checkout different Repository as per input in Azure Pipeline

According to this thread Pipeline resource Version property as a variable:

While we can’t allow variables in that field, this is an excellent use case for runtime parameters.

So, we could not use variable $(project)/$(repo) in the resources.

To resolve this issue, we could use the Checking out a specific ref:

parameters:
- name: ProjectName
  displayName: Project Name
  type: string
  default: LeoTest
  values:
  - LeoTest
- name: repoName
  displayName: repo Name
  type: string
  default: TestRepo
  values:
  - TestRepo
- name: branchRef
  displayName: Branch Name
  type: string
  default: Dev
  values:
  - Dev

And

- checkout: git://${{ parameters.ProjectName}}/${{ parameters.repoName}}@refs/heads/${{ parameters.branchRef}}

The test result:

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Upvotes: 4

DavidCox88
DavidCox88

Reputation: 1018

Since you are talking about parameters I'm assuming you are using templates. I was able to achieve the desired result with the following code

# File: template.yml
parameters:
- name: project
  type: string
- name: repo
  type: string
- name: branch
  type: string

stages:
- stage: A
  displayName: Checkout
  jobs:
  - job: Checkout
    steps:
    - checkout: git://${{ parameters.project }}/${{ parameters.repo }}@${{ parameters.branch }}


# File: pipeline.yml
extends:
  template: template.yml
  parameters:
    project: ProjectName
    repo: RepoName
    branch: BranchName

Upvotes: 2

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