Sourcegraph Batch Changes use batch specs to define batch changes.
This page is a reference guide to the batch spec YAML format in which batch specs are defined. If you're new to YAML and want a short introduction, see "Learn YAML in five minutes."
The name of the batch change, which is unique among all batch changes in the namespace. A batch change's name is case-preserving.
name: update-go-import-statements
name: update-node.js
The description of the batch change. It's rendered as Markdown.
description: This batch change changes all `fmt.Sprintf` calls to `strconv.Iota`.
description: |
This batch change changes all imports from
`gopkg.in/sourcegraph/sourcegraph-in-x86-asm`
to
`github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph-in-x86-asm`
The set of repositories (and branches) to run the batch change on, specified as a list of search queries (that match repositories) and/or specific repositories.
on:
- repositoriesMatchingQuery: lang:go fmt.Sprintf("%d", :[v]) patterntype:structural
- repository: github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph
A Sourcegraph search query that matches a set of repositories (and branches). Each matched repository branch is added to the list of repositories that the batch change will be run on.
See "Code search" for more information on Sourcegraph search queries.
on:
- repositoriesMatchingQuery: file:README.md -repo:github.com/sourcegraph/src-cli
on:
- repositoriesMatchingQuery: lang:typescript file:web const changesetStatsFragment
A specific repository (and, optionally, one or more branches) to be added to the list of repositories that the batch change will be run on.
NOTE: Before Sourcegraph 3.35, only the last named branch would be used if multiple branches were specified, and only a single
branch
could be provided. In Sourcegraph 3.35 and later versions, all branches are used.
To match a branch other than the default, branch
or branches
can be used to specify one or multiple branches, respectively. Only one of branch
or branches
can be set.
WARNING: If multiple branches are matched for the same repository, then
changesetTemplate.branch
will need to have a different value for each branch.
on:
- repository: github.com/sourcegraph/src-cli
on:
- repository: github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph
branch: 3.19-beta
- repository: github.com/sourcegraph/src-cli
In the following example, the repositoriesMatchingQuery
returns both repositories with their default branch, but the 3.23
branch is used for github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph
, since it is more specific:
on:
- repositoriesMatchingQuery: repo:sourcegraph\/(sourcegraph|src-cli)$
- repository: github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph
branch: 3.23
In this example, both the 3.19-beta
and 3.23
branches are used:
on:
- repositoriesMatchingQuery: repo:sourcegraph\/(sourcegraph|src-cli)$
- repository: github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph
branches:
- 3.19-beta
- 3.23
The sequence of commands to run (for each repository branch matched in the on
property) to produce the batch change's changes.
steps:
- run: echo "Hello World!" >> README.md
container: alpine:3
steps:
- run: comby -in-place 'fmt.Sprintf("%d", :[v])' 'strconv.Itoa(:[v])' .go -matcher .go -exclude-dir .,vendor
container: comby/comby
- run: gofmt -w ./
container: golang:1.15-alpine
steps:
- run: ./update_dependency.sh
container: our-custom-image
env:
OLD_VERSION: 1.31.7
NEW_VERSION: 1.33.0
The shell command to run in the container. It can also be a multi-line shell script. The working directory is the root directory of the repository checkout.
Templatingsteps.run
can include template variables in Sourcegraph 3.22 and Sourcegraph CLI 3.21.5.
The Docker image used to launch the Docker container in which the shell command is run.
The image has to have either the /bin/sh
or the /bin/bash
shell.
It is executed using docker
on the machine on which the Sourcegraph CLI (src
) is executed. If the image exists locally, that is used. Otherwise it's pulled using docker pull
.
Environment variables to set in the environment when running this command.
These may be defined either as an object or (in Sourcegraph 3.23 and later) as an array.
Templating The value for each entry insteps.env
can include template variables in Sourcegraph 3.22 and Sourcegraph CLI 3.21.5.
In this case, steps.env
is an object, where the key is the name of the environment variable and the value is the value.
steps:
- run: echo $MESSAGE >> README.md
container: alpine:3
env:
MESSAGE: Hello world!
NOTE: This feature is only available in Sourcegraph 3.23 and later.
In this case, steps.env
is an array. Each array item is either:
- An object with a single property, in which case the key is used as the environment variable name and the value the value, or
- A string that defines an environment variable to include from the environment
src
is being run within. This is useful to define secrets that you don't want to include in the spec file, but this makes the spec dependent on your environment, means that the local execution cache will be invalidated each time the environment variable changes, and means that the batch spec file is no longer the sole source of truth intended by the Batch Changes design.
This example is functionally the same as the object example above:
steps:
- run: echo $MESSAGE >> README.md
container: alpine:3
env:
- MESSAGE: Hello world!
This example pulls in the USER
environment variable and uses it to construct the line that will be appended to README.md
:
steps:
- run: echo $MESSAGE from $USER >> README.md
container: alpine:3
env:
- MESSAGE: Hello world!
- USER
For instance, if USER
is set to adam
, this would append Hello world! from adam
to README.md
.
NOTE: This feature is only available in Sourcegraph 3.22 and later.
Files to create on the host machine and mount into the container when running steps.run
.
steps.files
is an object, where the key is the name of the file inside the container and the value is the content of the file.
steps.files
can include template variables in Sourcegraph 3.22 and Sourcegraph CLI 3.21.5.
steps:
- run: cat /tmp/my-temp-file.txt >> README.md
container: alpine:3
files:
/tmp/my-temp-file.txt: Hello world!
steps:
- run: cat /tmp/global-gitignore >> .gitignore
container: alpine:3
files:
/tmp/global-gitignore: |
# Vim
*.swp
# JetBrains/IntelliJ
.idea
# Emacs
*~
\#*\#
/.emacs.desktop
/.emacs.desktop.lock
.\#*
.dir-locals.el
NOTE: This feature is only available in Sourcegraph 3.24 and later.
Output variables that are set after the steps.run
command has been executed. These variables are available in the global outputs
namespace as outputs.<name>
template variables in the run
, env
, and outputs
properties of subsequent steps, and the changesetTemplate
. Two steps with the same output variable name will overwrite the previous contents.
steps:
- run: yarn upgrade
container: alpine:3
outputs:
# Set output `friendlyMessage`
friendlyMessage:
value: "Hello there!"
steps:
- run: echo "Hello there!" >> message.txt && cat message.txt
container: alpine:3
outputs:
friendlyMessage:
# `value` supports templating variables and can access the just-executed
# step's stdout/stderr.
value: "${{ step.stdout }}"
steps:
- run: echo "Hello there!"
container: alpine:3
outputs:
stepOneOutput:
value: "${{ step.stdout }}"
- run: echo "We have access to the output here: ${{ outputs.stepOneOutput }}"
container: alpine:3
outputs:
stepTwoOutput:
value: "here too: ${{ outputs.stepOneOutput }}"
steps:
- run: cat .goreleaser.yml >&2
container: alpine:3
outputs:
goreleaserConfig:
value: "${{ step.stderr }}"
# Specifying a `format` tells Sourcegraph CLI how to parse the value before
# making it available as a template variable.
format: yaml
changesetTemplate:
# [...]
body: |
The `goreleaser.yml` defines the following `before.hooks`:
${{ outputs.goreleaserConfig.before.hooks }}
The value the output should be set to.
Templatingsteps.outputs.$name.value
can include template variables.
The format of the corresponding steps.outputs.<name>.value
. When this is set to something other than text
, it will be parsed as the given format.
Possible values: text
, yaml
, json
. Default is text
.
NOTE: This feature is only available in Sourcegraph 3.28 and later with Sourcegraph CLI 3.28 and later.
Condition to check before executing the step. If the value of the if:
attribute is true
(boolean) or "true"
(string) then the step is executed in the given repository (or workspace, in case workspaces are used). Otherwise the step is skipped.
As an optimization, the Sourcegraph CLI tries to evaluate the condition before starting to execute any steps
. If the condition can be evaluated ahead of time and the result of the evaluation is false then the execution of the step won't be attempted for the repository, which leads to better cache utilization.
Ahead-of-time evaluation is possible if the condition contains only static data. Example: if: ${{ eq repository.name "github.com/my-org/my-repo" }}
. The repository name is known before the execution of the steps, so evaluation succeeds and Sourcegraph CLI will not include the given step in the list of steps to execute for repositories that don't have the matching name. That in turn allows the modification of this step's run
attribute, for example, without invalidating the cache for the repositories in which it's never executed.
steps.if
condition can make use of templating.
steps:
# `if:` is true, step always executes.
- if: true
run: echo "name of repository is ${{ repository.name }}" >> message.txt
container: alpine:3
steps:
# `if:` is a static string that's not "true", step never executes.
- if: "random string"
run: echo "name of repository is ${{ repository.name }}" >> message.txt
container: alpine:3
steps:
# `if:` uses templating to check for repository name and produce a "true". Only runs in github.com/sourcegraph/automation-testing
- if: ${{ eq repository.name "github.com/sourcegraph/automation-testing" }}
run: echo "hello from automation-testing" >> message.txt
container: alpine:3
steps:
# `if:` uses glob pattern to match repository name and produce "true" on match.
- if: ${{ matches repository.name "*sourcegraph-testing*" }}
run: echo "name contains sourcegraph-testing" >> message.txt
container: alpine:3
steps:
# First step prints to standard out and saves to outputs
- run: if [[ -f "go.mod" ]]; then echo "true"; else echo "false"; fi
container: alpine:3
outputs:
goModExists:
value: ${{ step.stdout }}
# `if:` uses the just-set `outputs.goModExists` value as condition
- if: ${{ outputs.goModExists }}
run: go fmt ./...
container: golang
steps:
# `if:` checks for path, in case steps are executed in workspace.
- if: ${{ eq steps.path "sub/directory/in/repo" }}
run: echo "hello workspace" >> workspace.txt
container: golang
An array describing which already-existing changesets should be imported from the code host into the batch change.
importChangesets:
- repository: github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph
externalIDs: [13323, "13343", 13342, 13380]
- repository: github.com/sourcegraph/src-cli
externalIDs: [260, 271]
The repository name as configured on your Sourcegraph instance.
The changesets to import from the code host. For GitHub this is the pull request number, for GitLab this is the merge request number, and for Bitbucket Server, Bitbucket Data Center, or Bitbucket Cloud this is the pull request number.
A template describing how to create (and update) changesets with the file changes produced by the command steps.
This defines what the changesets on the code hosts (pull requests on GitHub, merge requests on Gitlab, ...) will look like.
changesetTemplate:
title: Replace equivalent fmt.Sprintf calls with strconv.Itoa
body: This batch change replaces `fmt.Sprintf("%d", integer)` calls with semantically equivalent `strconv.Itoa` calls
branch: batch-changes/sprintf-to-itoa
commit:
message: Replacing fmt.Sprintf with strconv.Iota
author:
name: Lisa Coder
email: [email protected]
published: false
changesetTemplate:
title: Update rxjs in package.json to newest version
body: This pull request updates rxjs to the newest version, `6.6.2`.
branch: batch-changes/update-rxjs
commit:
message: Update rxjs to 6.6.2
published: true
changesetTemplate:
title: Run go fmt over all Go files
body: Regular `go fmt` run over all our Go files.
branch: go-fmt
commit:
message: Run go fmt
author:
name: Anna Wizard
email: [email protected]
published:
# Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
- git.istari.example/*: false
- git.istari.example/anna/*: true
The title of the changeset on the code host.
TemplatingchangesetTemplate.title
can include template variables starting with Sourcegraph 3.24 and Sourcegraph CLI 3.24.
The body (description) of the changeset on the code host. If the code supports Markdown you can use it here.
TemplatingchangesetTemplate.body
can include template variables starting with Sourcegraph 3.24 and Sourcegraph CLI 3.24.
The name of the Git branch to create or update on each repository with the changes.
If multiple branches within the same repository are matched in on.repository
, then this value must be dynamic, since it is impossible to create multiple branches with the same name in the same repository. This is often most easily accomplished with the repository.branch
template variable. For example, this will create new-feature-3.34
and new-feature-3.35
branches:
on:
- repository: github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph
branches:
- 3.34
- 3.35
changesetTemplate:
branch: new-feature-${{ repository.branch }}
changesetTemplate.branch
can include template variables starting with Sourcegraph 3.24 and Sourcegraph CLI 3.24.
The Git commit to create with the changes.
The Git commit message.
TemplatingchangesetTemplate.commit.message
can include template variables starting with Sourcegraph 3.24 and Sourcegraph CLI 3.24.
The name
and email
of the Git commit author.
changesetTemplate.commit.author
can include template variables starting with Sourcegraph 3.24 and Sourcegraph CLI 3.24.
changesetTemplate:
commit:
author:
name: Alan Turing
email: [email protected]
Whether to publish the changeset. This may be a boolean value (ie true
or false
), 'draft'
, or an array to only publish some changesets within the batch change. This may also be omitted, in which case the publication state will be controlled through the Sourcegraph UI, and will default to unpublished (that is, the same as specifying false
).
An unpublished changeset can be previewed on Sourcegraph by any person who can view the batch change, but its commit, branch, and pull request aren't created on the code host.
When published
is set to draft
a commit, branch, and pull request / merge request are being created on the code host in draft mode. This means:
- On GitHub the changeset will be a draft pull request.
- On GitLab the changeset will be a merge request whose title is be prefixed with
'WIP: '
to flag it as a draft merge request. - On BitBucket Server, Bitbucket Data Center, and Bitbucket Cloud draft pull requests are not supported and changesets published as
draft
won't be created.
NOTE: Changesets that have already been published on a code host as a non-draft (
published: true
) cannot be converted into drafts. Changesets can only go from unpublished to draft to published, but not from published to draft. That also allows you to take it out of draft mode on your code host, without risking Sourcegraph to revert to draft mode.
A published changeset results in a commit, branch, and pull request being created on the code host.
To publish only specific changesets within a batch change, an array of single-element objects can be provided. For example:
published:
- github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph: true
- github.com/sourcegraph/src-cli: false
- github.com/sourcegraph/batchutils: draft
Each key will be matched against the repository name using glob syntax. The gobwas/glob library is used for matching, with the key operators being:
Term | Meaning |
---|---|
* |
Match any sequence of characters |
? |
Match any single character |
[ab] |
Match either a or b |
[a-z] |
Match any character between a and z , inclusive |
{abc,def} |
Match either abc or def |
If multiple entries match a repository, then the last entry will be used. For example, github.com/a/b
will not be published given this configuration:
published:
- github.com/a/*: true
- github.com/*: false
If no entries match, then the repository will not be published. To make the default true, add a wildcard entry as the first item in the array:
published:
- "*": true
- github.com/*: false
NOTE: The standalone
"*"
is quoted in the key to avoid ambiguity in the YAML document.
By adding a @<branch>
at the end of a match-rule, the rule is only matched against changesets with that branch:
published:
- github.com/sourcegraph/src-*@my-branch: true
- github.com/sourcegraph/src-*@my-other-branch: true
To publish all changesets created by a batch change:
changesetTemplate:
published: true
To publish all changesets created by a batch change as drafts:
changesetTemplate:
published: draft
To only publish changesets within the sourcegraph
GitHub organization:
changesetTemplate:
published:
- github.com/sourcegraph/*: true
To publish all changesets that are not on GitLab:
changesetTemplate:
published:
- "*": true
- gitlab.com/*: false
To publish all changesets on GitHub as draft:
changesetTemplate:
published:
- "*": true
- github.com/*: draft
To publish only one of many changesets in a repository by addressing them with their branch name:
changesetTemplate:
published:
- "*": true
- github.com/sourcegraph/*@my-branch-name-1: draft
- github.com/sourcegraph/*@my-branch-name-2: false
(Multiple changesets in a single repository can be produced, for example, per project in a monorepo or by transforming large changes into multiple changesets).
ExperimentaltransformChanges
is an experimental feature in Sourcegraph 3.23 and Sourcegraph CLI 3.23. It's a preview of functionality we're currently exploring to make managing large changes in large repositories easier. If you have any feedback, please let us know!
A description of how to transform the changes (diffs) produced in each repository before turning them into separate changeset specs by inserting them into the changesetTemplate
.
This allows the creation of multiple changeset specs (and thus changesets) in a single repository.
# Transform the changes produced in each repository.
transformChanges:
# Group the file diffs by directory and produce an additional changeset per group.
group:
# Create a separate changeset for all changes in the top-level `go` directory
- directory: go
branch: my-batch-change-go # will replace the `branch` in the `changesetTemplate`
- directory: internal/codeintel
branch: my-batch-change-codeintel # will replace the `branch` in the `changesetTemplate`
repository: github.com/sourcegraph/src-cli # optional: only apply the rule in this repository
transformChanges:
group:
- directory: go/utils/time
branch: my-batch-change-go-time
# The *last* matching directory is used, not the most specific one,
# so only this changeset would be opened.
- directory: go/utils
branch: my-batch-change-go-date
A list of groups to define which file diffs to group together to create an additional changeset in the given repository.
The order of the list matters, since each file diff's filepath is matched against the directory
of a group and the last match is used.
If no changes have been produced in a directory
then no changeset will be created.
The name of the directory in which file diffs should be grouped together.
The name is relative to the root of the repository.
The branch that should be used for this additional changeset. This overwrites the changesetTemplate.branch
when creating the additional changeset.
Important: the branch can not be nested under the changesetTemplate.branch
, i.e. if the changesetTemplate.branch
is my-batch-change
then this can not be my-batch-change/my-subdirectory
since git doesn't allow that. Additionally branch names must be unique and cannot be used as arguments for multiple directory
fields.
Optional: the file diffs matching the given directory will only be grouped in a repository with that name, as configured on your Sourcegraph instance.
Experimentalworkspaces
is an experimental feature in Sourcegraph 3.25 and Sourcegraph CLI 3.25. It's a preview of functionality we're currently exploring to make managing large changes in large repositories easier. If you have any feedback, please let us know!
The optional workspaces
property allows users to define where projects are located in repositories and cause the steps
to be executed for each project, instead of once per repository. That allows easier creation of multiple changesets in large repositories.
For each repository that's yielded by on
, Sourcegraph search is used to get the locations of the rootAtLocationOf
file. Each location then serves as a workspace for the execution of the steps
, instead of the root of the repository. Use the workspaces.in
property to scope the workspaces definitions. Omitting it is treated as *
.
Important: Since multiple workspaces in the same repository can produce multiple changesets, it's required to use templating to produce a unique changesetTemplate.branch
for each produced changeset. See the examples below.
Defining JavaScript projects that live in a monorepo by using the location of the package.json
file as the root for each project:
on:
- repository: github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph
workspaces:
- rootAtLocationOf: package.json
in: github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph
changesetTemplate:
# [...]
# Since a changeset is uniquely identified by its repository and its
# branch we need to ensure that each changesets has a unique branch name.
# We can use templating and helper functions get the `path` in which
# the `steps` executed and turn that into a branch name:
branch: my-multi-workspace-batch-change-${{ replace steps.path "/" "-" }}
Using templating to produce a unique branch name in repositories with workspaces and repositories without workspaces:
on:
- repository: github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph
- repository: github.com/sourcegraph/src-cli
workspaces:
- rootAtLocationOf: package.json
in: github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph
changesetTemplate:
# [...]
# Since the steps in `github.com/sourcegraph/src-cli` are executed in the
# root, where path is "", we can use `join_if` to drop it from the branch name
# if it's a blank string:
branch: ${{ join_if "-" "my-multi-workspace-batch-change" (replace steps.path "/" "-") }}
Defining where Go, JavaScript, and Rust projects live in multiple repositories:
workspaces:
- rootAtLocationOf: go.mod
in: github.com/sourcegraph/go-*
- rootAtLocationOf: package.json
in: github.com/sourcegraph/*-js
onlyFetchWorkspace: true
- rootAtLocationOf: Cargo.toml
in: github.com/rusty-org/*
changesetTemplate:
# [...]
branch: ${{ join_if "-" "my-multi-workspace-batch-change" (replace steps.path "/" "-") }}
Using steps.outputs
to dynamically create unique branch names:
# [...]
on:
# Find all repositories with a package.json file
- repositoriesMatchingQuery: repohasfile:package.json
workspaces:
# Define that workspaces have their root folder at the location of the
# package.json files
- rootAtLocationOf: package.json
in: "*"
steps:
# [... steps that produce changes ...]
# Run `jq` to extract the "name" from the package.json
- run: jq -j .name package.json
container: jiapantw/jq-alpine:latest
outputs:
# Set outputs.packageName to stdout of this step's `run` command.
packageName:
value: ${{ step.stdout }}
changesetTemplate:
# [...]
# Use `outputs` variables to create a unique branch name per changeset:
branch: my-batch-change-${{ outputs.projectName }}
The full name of the file that sits at the root of one or more workspaces in a given repository.
Sourcegraph code search is used to find the location of files with this name in the repositories returned by on
.
For example, in a repository with the following files:
packages/sourcegraph-ui/package.json
packages/sourcegraph-test-helper/package.json
the workspace configuration
workspaces:
- rootAtLocationOf: package.json
in: "*"
would create two changesets in the repository, one in packages/sourcegraph-ui
and one in packages/sourcegraph-test-helper
.
The repositories in which the workspace should be discovered.
This field supports globbing by using glob syntax. See "Publishing only specific changesets" for more information on globbing.
A repository matching multiple entries results in an error.
Match all repository names that begin with github.com/
:
workspaces:
- rootAtLocationOf: go.mod
in: github.com/*
Match all repository names that begin with gitlab.com/my-javascript-org/
and end with -plugin
:
workspaces:
- rootAtLocationOf: package.json
in: gitlab.com/my-javascript-org/*-plugin
When set to true
, only the folder containing the workspace is downloaded to execute the steps
.
This field is not required and when not set the default is false
.
Additional files — .gitignore
and .gitattributes
as of now — are downloaded from the location of the workspace up to the root of the repository.
For example, with the following file layout in a repository
.
├── a
│ ├── b
│ │ ├── [... other files in b ...]
│ │ ├── package.json
│ │ └── .gitignore
│ │
│ ├── [... other files in a ...]
│ ├── .gitattributes
│ └── .gitignore
│
├── [... other files in root ... ]
└── .gitignore
and this workspace configuration
workspaces:
- rootAtLocationOf: package.json
in: github.com/our-our/our-large-monorepo
onlyFetchWorkspace: true
then
- the
steps
will be executed inb
- the complete contents of
b
will be downloaded and are available to the steps - the
.gitattributes
and.gitignore
files ina
will be downloaded and put ina
, but only those - the
.gitignore
files in the root will be downloaded and put in the root folder, but only that file
Only download the workspaces of specific JavaScript projects in a large monorepo:
workspaces:
- rootAtLocationOf: package.json
in: github.com/our-our/our-large-monorepo
onlyFetchWorkspace: true