[sakai-core-team] Automatically creating git tags

[Matthew Buckett]

One other possibility is to include the git short SHA in the build
properties, this was you know exactly what version was checked out
when the build was made.

On 26 February 2015 at 20:51, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com> wrote:
> We talked this morning on the release call about having Jenkins auto create
> a tag on every build so it's easier to find out what build is running on the
> nightlies and easier to reference a build on a date. Otherwise the syntax
> for checking out by date seems semi difficult to remember and not 100%
> agreed on what the answer is. [1]
>
> So I tried to setup a process (As a Post Action on the trunkbuild) on our
> Jenkins to automatically create git tags but Jenkins failed to publish it. I
> believe it needs credentials either in the form of private key or username
> password. Most likely if we did this we'd have to create a 'generic' account
> held by the foundation and give it access to that.
>
> There's also an option for "Certificate" (PKCS#12 certificate and password)
> but I don't 100% know where to find that?
>
> It feels like there should be some other way to publish but I don't see that
> in the options here for this plugin.
>
> Also at the moment this issue is broken in Jenkins
> (https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-26520) so there is no way to
> reference the timestamp for creating timestamp tags. Like for instance if we
> wanted a tag
>
> master/2014-02-26-15-00-00 or something. I'm guessing we'd have to go all
> the way out to the minute since we could potentially build multiple times an
> hour? In any case that's impossible and it only allows for the build number
> (master/116).
>
> Anyway, it seems like a great process but there are a few hurdles at the
> moment.
>
> [1] http://blog.endpoint.com/2014/05/git-checkout-at-specific-date.html
>
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