1.14.2.1 Basic Git Operations

All of these examples use the concourse/git-resource image. That image is probably the most popular git resource for Concourse since it is shipped in the concourse/concourse image and in the tarball on the GitHub release page. It is not the only resource available for working with git-related resources. If you don't see your use-case on this page then there is probably another resource that you can use. For example, Pull Request workflows can be accomplished with the teliaoss/github-pr-resource.

Check out the docs for the git resource for all configuration options.

Fetching a Repository

Here is how you fetch the contents of a git repository and use it in a task.

resources:
- name: concourse-examples
  type: git
  icon: github
  source:
    uri: https://github.com/concourse/examples

jobs:
- name: read-the-readme
  plan:
  - get: concourse-examples
  - task: cat-readme
    config:
      platform: linux
      image_resource:
        type: registry-image
        source:
          repository: busybox
      inputs: # pass concourse-examples into this task step
      - name: concourse-examples
      run:
        path: cat
        args: ["concourse-examples/README.md"]

Creating Commits and Tags

Here's a simple way to create a commit using a bash script.

resources:
- name: repo-main
  type: git
  icon: github
  source:
    uri: https://github.com/user/my-repo
    branch: main

jobs:
- name: create-a-commit
  plan:
  - get: repo-main
  - task: commit-and-tag
    config:
      platform: linux
      image_resource:
        type: registry-image
        source:
          repository: gitea/gitea # use any image that has the git cli
      inputs:
      - name: repo-main
      outputs:
      # to pass the commit to the following steps specify
      # the "repo-main" as an output as well
      - name: repo-main
      run:
        path: sh
        args:
        - -cx
        # this is just a bash script
        - |
          cd repo-main
          # edit a file / make a change
          date +%Y-%m-%d > todays-date
          git add ./todays-date
          git commit -m "Add todays date"
          git tag v0.1.6
  # push commit and tag
  - put: repo-main
    params:
      # specify the "repo-main" artifact as the location
      repository: repo-main

Merging Branches

Here is how you can merge two branches. Common if you are using gitflow and need to merge a dev branch into main every so often.

resources:
- name: repo-main
  type: git
  icon: github
  source:
    uri: https://github.com/user/my-repo
    branch: main

- name: repo-dev
  type: git
  icon: github
  source:
    uri: https://github.com/user/my-repo
    branch: dev

jobs:
- name: merge-dev-into-main
  plan:
  - get: repo-dev
  - put: repo-main
    params:
      repository: repo-dev
      merge: true