Ok this is a completely noob question, so apologies, our build environment has a specific requirement. The git repo needs to live in a subdirectory of $HOME called git. How do we do this? It seems as though the default is to do a git clone into $HOME. Is there a way to set this. I didn’t see this possible with a first glance at the circle.yml documentation. It says the default is to use $HOME, but doesn’t say how to change it.
Have you tried moving the repository to your desired location with cd?
Well cd doesn’t really move anything, there are a couple of tricks here:
- circleci automatically creates in $HOME (usually /home/ubuntu) a subdirectory named CIRCLECI_PROJECT_REPONAME (so if your repo is foo, then it puts it in /home/ubuntu/foo).
- our build system requires that the repo live in $HOME/git/$CIRCLE_PROJECT_REPONAME so you need to move it in the checkout: post: phase which defaults to a current working directory of $HOME/$CIRCLECI_PROJECT_REPONAME with
mkdir ../git && mv ../$CIRCLE_PROJECT_REPONAME ../git && mkdir ../$CIRCLE_PROJECT_REPONAMEwhich moves git repo somewhere else. You need the last mkdir because circleci needs that directory to exist as this is where it wants to start - Now when you want to run commands, you need to make sure to set the
pwd:tag properly and it should be done relative to $HOME/$CIRCLE_PROJECT_REPONAME because all those tags are relative to that spot, so it looks likepwd: ../git/$CIRCLE_PROJECT_REPONAME - I’m not clear how circleci handles spaces and special characters in their shell, so I normally double quote every path name in the circle.yml file just to be safe.