Git Push to Teamcity CI

(using .net, TeamCity, git)

To create a repository with git that our team can push to, it needs to be --bare. This works for source control.

However this --bare repository is the one that will be monitored to trigger CI builds using TeamCity. The question I have is how can I use this repository to trigger builds because there is no code (.sln) in a bare repository?

I have tried several configurations, but I can not create 开发者_StackOverflowa remote repository that can be pushed to, and will trigger builds when it is.

Thanks for your help,

Paul

Update January 2012:

Jon mentions in the comments that TeamCity version 6.5.6 has great intergration for Git, which would render the hooks I suggests below not needed.

It includes for instance:

Personal Builds on branches for Git and Mercurial

TeamCity 6.5 provides a more natural way to start Personal Builds on server with distributed version controls.

Original answer November 2010

You can setup two repositories:

• one bare, where your team ushes to
• one non-bare

On the bare one, add a post-update hook which will:

• go to the non-bare repo
• make a pull

post-update hook:

#!/bin/sh
cd /path/to/non-bare/repo &&
unset GIT_DIR
git fetch origin
git reset --hard origin/master

This article suggests another approach (non-bare repo with a checkout -f on a post-receive hook)

The general idea remains to update a non-bare repo, in order for your TeamCity instance to work on that set of files.