How to exclude tags folder from triggering build in Teamcity?

Question

Hello,

I recently installed Teamcity 5.0.3. I am trying to setup automated build for a .NET 2.0 VS2005 project. I use NAnt and MSBuild task to perform the build. The project structure is a typical SVN structure

svn://localhost/ITools is my repository and the project structure is

VisualTrack

 trunk

 branches

 tags

I created a new project in Teamcity and then created a build configuration for that project. I asked it to kick off a build everytime there is a change detected in SVN VisualTrack VCS. I also configured it to create a label in VisualTrack/tags for every successful build. The problem I am running into is that the build is getting trigerred everytime teamcity is creating a new label under tags. I only want the build to be triggered if some developer commits his or her changes into trunk. Next step I took was to create a build trigger rule to exclude the tags path by specifying a trigger pattern as -:VisualTrack/tags/**, but looks like its not working. I believe the pattern I specified is not correct. Can someone please help me resolve this issue?

Thanks,

Jaya.

Answer 1

I'd suggest that you change your TeamCity VCS root URL for this project to be:

svn://localhost/ITools/VisualTrack/trunk

Which is a more typical setup. You can easily setup multiple VCS root configurations in TeamCity. This VCS root would only be concerned with building the trunk area of your project, which it sound like it what you want.