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Git - 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 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.