Wow, thanks Yegor for your response that makes me feel like you're really thinking about my request and various ways you could do it.
Seems, you are using git plugin from github project. It is not affiliated with JetBrains, so we cannot address clones optimization.
That's right, I'm using that plugin. I understand you can't support that one. It was more of a feature request for the built-in support for Git I heard was coming.
Actually, we will open EAP within days for our own git support plugin and it will not have double clone issue because the checkout will be handled on the TeamCity server side.
Within days? That's freakin' awesome!
Can you please elaborate on automation of every branch build?
How many branches do you have? What is the nature of the branches - are they per-developer or per-feature or per-client, etc?
Is branches set constant or it evolves over time?
I have a branch for every minor version of the project, and then a few feature branches that come and go as needed, and I'd like build configurations for all of these. So for example, I have "master" for the next big thing, and then maintenance branches for "v2.5", "v2.4", "v2.3", etc. In each of these branches I have tags for each revision, such as v2.5.4. Feel free to visit http://github.com/AArnott/dotnetopenid/ if you want to see the branches as I use them directly. So right now I have about a dozen branches I would want to build. Then I have a few other branches that don't contain source code, or whose source base is so old the build configuration would have to be adjusted for.
Do you think of automatic build configuration creation for every new branch or some other approach?
Yes. As soon as a branch is created on the repository that TeamCity pulls from, I'd like a build configuration to be automatically created based on some template configuration. After these configurations are created, I may need to customize them and/or delete them and they should stay altered/deleted, but by far the most common case would be a build for every new branch.
Thanks a bunch. I look forward to seeing what you can do!
