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- Automatically trigger a build whenever a check-in occurs in a tracked VCS.
- Referencing components of the VCS in build actions.
- Monitor and record changes in the repository. These include changesets that triggered a build or changesets that have been added since the previous build was run.
- Show changesets that were committed by the current user. For a user to correctly view their own changes, they will first need to configure their Repository User Mappings.
- Link a repository to an Issue Connector. This allows you to automatically link repository check-in comments to an issue in your issue tracking system.
Repository Caches
Unlike some other continuous integration servers like FinalBuilder Server, Continua CI manages the retrieval of your source code. When you create a repository in Continua CI, it points the Continua server to your VCS. The polling frequency of each repository can be set to specify how often the Continua server polls the VCS for changes.
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When a build is initialised, either manually or from a trigger, Continua will check if there are any new changesets for each repository in the configuration and, if it finds any, update the repository cache.
At this point the latest changeset for each repository will then be associated with the build. Unless the build has been initialised by a Repository Trigger with a quiet period set, Continua Continua will then try to reserve an agent to run the first build stage. After this point the build may need to wait for an agent to be available and further changesets may be detected, however all build stages will always use the source code from the latest changeset associated with the build.
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Note if the build is initialised by a Repository Trigger and a Repository Trigger and a quiet period set has been set, Continua will continue to associate any new changesets it detects on the triggering repository with the same branch as the triggering changeset until the quiet period has ended. The build will then continue with each stage using the latest changeset associated with the build before the quiet period ended.
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