Using Git Server Hooks on GitLab CE to Validate Tags
Since a long time ago I’ve been a gitlab-ce user, in fact I’ve set it up on three of the last four companies I’ve worked for (initially I installed it using the omnibus packages on a debian server but on the last two places I moved to the docker based installation, as it is easy to maintain and we don’t need a big installation as the teams using it are small). On the company I work for now (kyso) we are using it to host all our internal repositories and to do all the CI/CD work (the automatic deployments are triggered by web hooks in some cases, but the rest is all done using gitlab-ci). The majority of projects are using nodejs as programming language and we have automated the publication of npm packages on our gitlab instance npm registry and even the publication into the npmjs registry. To publish the packages we have added rules to the gitlab-ci configuration of the relevant repositories and we publish them when a tag is created. As the we are lazy by definition, I configured the system to use the tag as the package version; I tested if the contents of the package.json where in sync with the expected version and if it was not I updated it and did a force push of the tag with the updated file using the following code on the script that publishes the package: # Update package version & add it to the .build-args INITIAL_PACKAGE_VERSION="$(npm pkg get version|tr -d '"')" npm version --allow-same --no-commit-hooks --no-git-tag-version \ "$CI_COMMIT_TAG" UPDATED_PACKAGE_VERSION="$(npm pkg get version|tr -d '"')" echo "UPDATED_PACKAGE_VERSION=$UPDATED_PACKAGE_VERSION" >> .build-args # Update tag if the version was updated or abort if [ "$INITIAL_PACKAGE_VERSION" != "$UPDATED_PACKAGE_VERSION" ]; then if [ -n "$CI_GIT_USER" ] && [ -n "$CI_GIT_TOKEN" ]; then git commit -m "Updated version from tag $CI_COMMIT_TAG" package.json git tag -f "$CI_COMMIT_TAG" -m "Updated version from tag" git push -f -o ci.skip origin "$CI_COMMIT_TAG" else echo "!!! ERROR !!!" echo "The updated tag could not be uploaded." echo "Set CI_GIT_USER and CI_GIT_TOKEN or fix the 'package.json' file" echo "!!! ERROR !!!" exit 1 fi fi...