Allow common configuration in branches-specific appveyor.yml

[FeodorFitsner]

Dicsussion: http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/suggestions/728-shared-settings-for-appveyoryml-with-conditional-branches

[briandonahue]

👍 on this - I could definitely use it.

[saper]

Same here (https://help.appveyor.com/discussions/questions/1655-less-code-duplication-in-appveyoryml-when-using-branchesony).

There was a suggestion that some YAML parsers accept >> syntax to include named nodes.

[remkoboschker]

any updates on this?

[AlexHayton]

We could really use this for our deployment process (the only difference is one line between the steps). We are currently implementing a powershell polyfill for this. @FeodorFitsner do you have any plans to include this soon?

[kneumei]

👍

[FeodorFitsner]

We may start working on that soon. @AlexHayton what's the idea behind your PS polyfill?

[AlexHayton]

I've written a powershell script that inspects $env:APPVEYOR_REPO_BRANCH
and $env:APPVEYOR_PULL_REQUEST_NUMBER, if it matches a list of environments
it runs the deploy.

For some reason this script isn't running when I set it as deploy_script:,
so I added it at the end my custom build steps.

On 17 March 2016 at 22:26, Feodor Fitsner [email protected] wrote:

We may start working on that soon. @AlexHayton
https://github.com/AlexHayton what's the idea behind your PS polyfill?

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[PureKrome]

@FeodorFitsner any chance we could please get this worked on next. PLEASE!! We're starting to find that our appveyor.yml files are starting to get really big because we're copying/pasting massive amounts of common sections.

[espoelstra]

+1 for the Yaml anchors &configname and references to "inherit" values from where it was originally defined.

[lukefrake]

👍 like the sound of this!

[steven-dawkins]

this would be really useful for us!

[flanza]

REALLY REALLY REALLY looking forward to it!

[flanza]

Is there some pespective of getting this feature released? It would be really usefull for all the comunity.

[IlyaFinkelshteyn]

We may need to include tags in scenario too.

[FeodorFitsner]

The feature has been delivered and documented here: https://www.appveyor.com/blog/2017/08/01/sharing-configuration-between-branches-in-appveyor-yml/

Let us know if you have any questions/comments.

[sehcheese]

Great thank you!

[PureKrome]

Loving the new Sharing facility in .yml files!