Stash
You can specify repositories at the following levels in Bamboo:
- global – repositories are available to all plans in Bamboo.
- plan – repositories are available to all jobs in the Bamboo plan.
- job – repositories are available to all tasks in the Bamboo job.
The recommended approach is to set up linked source repositories at the global level – see Linking to source code repositories.
When you link a repository hosted in Atlassian's Stash (now Bitbucket Server) with a build plan in Bamboo, then without any further configuration:
- Bamboo will automatically run a build when changes are pushed to the Stash repository, without needing to configure polling.
- Bamboo will automatically update plan branches when a developer pushes a new branch to the repository (or deletes a branch).
- You can click through to Stash to see the commit diff for all files that are part of the changeset.
- Stash commits that are part of a build are displayed in Bamboo.
- Build results are notified to Stash (and displayed for the associated commits and pull requests).
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Stash and Bamboo only need to have been connected by creating an application link. Repositories in Stash are then made available in Bamboo, so it is easy for you to link your Bamboo plan to a Stash repository.
When you create a plan that uses a Stash source repository, with Stash 3.1 and later, Bamboo will automatically use the Stash repository triggers the build when changes are committed trigger option instead of using the polling the repository for changes option. This reduces the load on the Bamboo and Stash servers because Bamboo doesn't need to send poll requests (for each branch of each plan) to the Stash server every 3 minutes (the default polling period). Instead, Stash will trigger Bamboo whenever there is a push to the repository.
Configuration requirements
Navigate to the source repository settings for a plan or job, as described on Linking to source code repositories, then:
- Either select Add repository to add a new repository, or edit an existing repository configuration.
Select Stash from the Repository host list.
Complete the required information:
Display name
A name that identifies this repository within Bamboo.
Stash server
This menu will show all Stash servers that have been linked to Bamboo via an application link.
Repository
The repository that will be built. This menu will show all repositories on the Stash server that you have permissions to access.
Branch
Pick a branch if you want to check out code from a branch other than the default branch.
Advanced Options
Use shallow clones
Allows Bamboo to perform shallow clones (i.e. history truncated to a specified number of revisions). This should increase the speed of the initial code checkouts, however if your build depends on the full repository history, we recommend that you do not use this option. Shallow clones are enabled by default.
Enable repository caching on remote agents
Allow caching of repositories on remote agents to save bandwidth. Note that caches are always full clones of the source repository.
Use submodules
Select to enable submodules support if these are defined for the repository. If native Git capability is not defined for agent submodules support will be disabled.
Command timeout
This helps to stop hung Bitbucket processes. On slower networks, you may consider increasing the default timeout to allow Bamboo time to make an initial clone of the Git repository.
Verbose logs
Turns on more verbose logs from Git commands. Use this option if you encounter problems with Git in Bamboo.
Fetch whole repository
Fetches whole repository instead of only one selected branch.
Enable quiet period
Specifies a delay after a single commit is detected before the build is started. This allows multiple commits to be aggregated into a single build.
Include/Exclude files
Allows you to specify the files that Bamboo should, or should not, use to detect changes. When you configure the Include option, it means that you want Bamboo to use only the mentioned files for change detection (by default Bamboo checks all the files). In the same way, if you configure the Exclude option, Bamboo will not consider the excluded files when detecting changes.
Enter into File pattern a regular expression to match the files that Bamboo includes or excludes. The regex pattern must match the file path in the repository. See this page for examples.
Exclude changesets
Enter a regular expression to match the commit messages for changesets that should not start a build.
Git LFS
- Git version 1.8.2 or later installed locally in your environment.
Git LFS 1.2 or later installed.
Bamboo 5.15 is shipped number of images which also include the Git LFS client.
Web repository
If your repository can be viewed in a web browser, select the repository type.
This allows links to relevant files to be displayed in the Code changes section of a build result.
Stash – specify the following details for the repository:
- Stash URL – the URL of your Stash instance (e.g. ' https://stash.mycompany.com ').
- Stash project key – the key of the project in Stash (e.g. 'CONF').
- Repository name – the name of the repository in Stash (e.g. 'conf-dev').
See Integrating Bamboo with Bitbucket Server for more information.