Overview
The Git plug-in automates importing artifacts from a Git repository.
This plug-in includes one step which has no input properties:
The plug-in adds the following roles to resources:
Step palette
To access this plug-in in the palette, click Source and Repositories > Git.
Compatibility
This plug-in requires DevOps Deploy version 6.0 or later.
This plug-in supports all versions of the Git client.
This plug-in runs on all operating systems that DevOps Deploy supports, except the IBM z/OS operating system.
Installation
This plug-in is installed when installing IBM DevOps Deploy. When new plug-in versions are available, see Installing plug-ins in DevOps Products to update the plug-in.
History
Version 31
Update Apache log4j to 2.26.1 for non-exploitable CVE-2026-49844
Version 30
Update Apache Log4j to 2.25.4
Addresses multiple non-exploitable CVEs: CVE-2026-34477, CVE-2026-34478, CVE-2026-34479, CVE-2026-34480, CVE-2026-34481
Version 29
Update Apache log4j to 2.25.3 for non-exploitable CVE-2025-68161
Version 28
- APAR-(PH58492): Handled NPE error for few properties
Version 27
- Updating Jettison library to 1.5.4 for CVE-2023-1436
Version 26
- URBANCODE-I-404: Added sparse clone feature to clone a particular directory/file
Version 25
- Updating jettison library for CVE-2022-45693 and CVE-2022-45685
Version 24
- Updating jettison library for CVE-2022-40150 CVE-2022-40149
Version 23
- Update log4j 2.17, udclient, and uDeployRestClient libraries
Version 22
- Remove log4j functionality related to: CVE-2019-17571, CVE-2020-9488. CVE-2021-4104, CVE-2022-23302, CVE-2022-23305, CVE-2022-23307
Version 21
- Allow specifying custom java opts
Version 20
- Better error messages when the version name already exists.
Version 19
- A version's importing field will be correctly set and marked as finished importing when creating versions that aren't copied to codestation.
Version 18
- Fixes APAR PH14132: security update
Version 17
- Added escape for special characters in username and password.
Version 16
- Fixing CVE:CVE-2019-4233
Version 15
- APAR PI89045: add support for setting isFinished flag flag when importing versions.
Version 14
- Fixes APAR PI87707, a regression where the user who requested a manual version import was not being tracked.
Version 13
- Fixes APAR PI94103. Added an option to disable SSL certificate verification.
Version 12
- Fixes APAR PI89187. Branch is now specified when making inital git clone command.
- Branch property is now optional. Default value is master.
- Improved error output when unable to identify Commit IDs or Tags.
- If specified revision is not found, a hollow component version will no longer be created.
Version 11
- RFE 110682. On default automatic imports where Watch for Tags is not specified, the plug-in will make a shallow copy of depth 1 to save time and space.
- If a Version/Tag value or the Watch for Tags check box is specified, a full clone will be made.
Version 10
- RFE 86753. Added support for Git submodules.
Version 9
- Fixes APAR PI40551. Now uses working directory for temporary artifact storage.
Version 8
- Plug-in now encodes username to fix authentication issues.
Version 7
- This release is being provided to include updated translations.
Version 6
- Fixes APAR PI63702. Adds functionality to separate Includes Excludes parameters with new lines or commas.
Version 5
- Fixes APAR PI57417. Plug-in now checks the agent settings for acceptance of self signed certificates.
Version 4
- Adds functionality to supply authentication credentials to a repository.
Version 3
- PI36827 - Use the agent's /var/temp rather than java.io.tmpdir for temporary files
Version 2
- Fixes running a process after creating a version
Version 1
- Initial release of the Git source configuration plugin.