TeamCity Build Triggers to exclude some directories

Question

I have a rule in Build Triggers to not trigger a build if a commit happens on a directory:

Here is the directory structure of our code

web      => Web Application code. Should trigger Build1
api      => Backend Code. Should trigger Build2

When a git commit happens on web files, I just want to trigger Build1 and not Build2. So, I have the trigger rules setup this way:

+:.
-:api/**

This worked for couple hours, but I started seeing both builds getting triggered when api files are checked in and vice versa.

I have also tried the following configurations and nothing seem to work.

Config2:

-:api/**

Config3:

+:web/**

Config4:

-:**
+:web/**

Config5:

-:.
+:web/**

Whats the right build trigger config for my usecase?

This happens both on Teamcity 8 and 9

Are you using checkout on an agent? Apparently there are limitations around checkout rules with Git and you can only map the entire repository to a directory (https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/TCD9/Git#Git-Limitations). — tspauld, Mar 13 '15 at 21:41

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 15 '15 at 20:05

2

You don't need the wildcards, and if you use a + rule you don't need the -:. rule. This should work for Build 1:

+:web/**

This should work for build 2:

+:api/**

edited Mar 15 '15 at 20:05

Biswajit_86

answered Mar 13 '15 at 18:14

tspauld

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 08 '15 at 18:28

-1

You can start playing with single file, trying to figure it out if it is still triggering both builds.

answered Jun 08 '15 at 18:28

Krzysztof Wolny

2 Answers2