Select Git branch for TeamCity Build

Question

I\'m wondering how to select the branch to build against using Team City 8.1.

My VCS root (Git) is set to Default: \"master\" and Branch specifications are

Answer 1

Based on @biswajit-86 's feedback and some other information I found while googling this, I was able to get this to work. Here's what I did (image-heavy, sorry). It's based on Team City 8.2 which seems to be set up a little differently than the examples I came across.

1) Set up a VCS root. Key here is the %BranchName% parameter.

2) Create a Build template and use the VCS root that was just created. I also added an MSBuild step as all of my builds need to run this.

3) Create a new build, based on the template. As you can see here, the %BrachName% parameter that was created in step 1 is available.

4) If you need to change this later, it's available here

And that's pretty much it. For my CI build, I left the branch name empty so any branch that is checked in triggers the MSBuild step. For my QA build, I pass in "develop" as shown here and I have this set up on a daily schedule. I also have a "release" build set up, but based on our naming conventions it looks like I need to update the build to point to the specific branch per release.

Answer 2

You can parameterize the "Ref name" of the git VCS setup. What this means is you declare a variable of the form %variable.name% in your build, create a build parameter under the "configuration parameter:" category.

For each build target set this value and you should be able to pick the specific branch that you want to run the target for.