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Mark GiI

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Mark GiI created a post, August 03, 2026 09:33
Teamcity Gotcha! (Clean Artefact Directories)

I spend a fair amount of time tearing my hear out today, as I couldn't figure out why despite downloading git artefacts at the start of a deployment build, they were missing when the deployment sta...
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Mark GiI commented, July 28, 2026 10:52
Many thanks for your help. We have something that seems to work pretty well for us now. In the interesting of knowledge sharing, if anyone is wondering how the serialization and deserialization us...
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Mark GiI commented, July 28, 2026 10:00
Promote appears on the overflow menu for each build (deployment in our case), and appears to be able to trigger a downstream “build” from any upstream “build” (we removed all triggers, as we don't ...
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Mark GiI commented, July 27, 2026 16:19
Sort of related, I don't see much documentation on the “Promote build” action. Would this help me in any way?
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Mark GiI commented, July 27, 2026 13:34
the problem with %dep is it doesn't really work very well with templates (our builds are templated, as are our deployments). Each time we add something to the chain, we end up having to rewire so...
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Mark GiI commented, July 27, 2026 09:05
Approval is handled outside of TeamCity, basically a manual meeting of all stakeholders, with an action to "release" the software once agreement is obtained from all stakeholders.Deployment is alea...
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Mark GiI created a post, July 23, 2026 15:53
Final Release Tasks in TeamCity.

Not sure how to best achieve the following:We have our builds and deployments all running from standard templates, which works really well, override a few version numbers, and a source branch, and...
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Mark GiI commented, December 03, 2024 15:04
Yes, we have quite a few of our own tools that we have created as plugin tools, essentially commandline tools that execute on the build agent,.Installing Agent Tools | TeamCity On-Premises Document...
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Mark GiI commented, December 03, 2024 10:45
If they are more dissimilar than they are similar, templates are not a good fit. Perhaps Meta Runners? Not used them myself, but might be what you are looking for?https://www.jetbrains.com/help/te...
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Mark GiI commented, December 03, 2024 10:27
Yes, you can use a common template and delete the steps that aren't required and add new steps that are, or better still try and make the template steps generic using parameters, so they are genera...
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