Question

We have CC.NET as continuous integration environment. CC gets every commits from Git, build and publish to server.

This is config:

        <buildpublisher
            <sourceDir>Path_to_dir_with_source</sourceDir>
            <publishDir>path_to_deploy</publishDir>
            <cleanPublishDirPriorToCopy>true</cleanPublishDirPriorToCopy>
            <useLabelSubDirectory>false</useLabelSubDirectory>
            <alwaysPublish>true</alwaysPublish>
        </buildpublisher>

But our QA engeneer wants to get “fresh” build every morning, not 20 times in a day 🙂

Anybody know how to make this with CC.NET?

[UPDATE]

We still need to build every commit, but put this commit to web server only once in a day

Answer 1

Use the ScheduleTrigger block:

<scheduleTrigger time="23:30" buildCondition="ForceBuild" name="Scheduled">
  <weekDays>
    <weekDay>Monday</weekDay>
  </weekDays>
</scheduleTrigger>

You can also use a cronTrigger, or an intervalTrigger, but for your case, the scheduleTrigger seems simplest.

http://www.cruisecontrolnet.org/projects/ccnet/wiki/Trigger_Blocks

Added to address the comment:

You can have multiple triggers in one Project block.

We have an Interval Trigger on our end as well as a Schedule Trigger. You can have as many triggers as you need.

If you want to keep the builds separate, you can also have a compeltely separate Project block – one that operates on a Schedule trigger, and one that operates on an interval, but there are risks, and the configuration needs to be planned. The following comes to mind as potential considerations:

1. If you do this, be sure you check out the source code to different directories, or you can run into conflicts if both are running at the same time.
2. Even if the source code checkout is to different directories, you can still run into conflicts if both projects are publishing to the same output location.