Configure branches configuring-branches
Learn how to set up your first branch in Git and how it is used by the CI/CD pipeline to deploy your application code.
Set up your first branch in Git setting-up-your-first-branch-in-git
A single, initially empty, Git repository is provisioned for each program onboarded in Cloud Manager. This repository can contain as many branches as your development process requires, but there must be at least one branch that is used by the CI/CD pipeline to deploy application code to stage and production. The best practice is to use main as the name of this branch. Conveniently, this approach is the default behavior of Git clients when setting up new projects.
For example, when setting up a new project, you run a set of commands similar to the following.
$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/myname/workspace/new-project/.git/
... steps which add Maven build files and source code ...
$ git add pom.xml core/pom.xml core/src ui.apps/pom.xml ui.apps/src
$ git commit -m "initial commit"
19 files changed, 777 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 core/pom.xml
create mode 100644 pom.xml
create mode 100644 ui.apps/pom.xml
create mode 100644 ui.apps/src/main/content/META-INF/vault/config.xml
create mode 100644 ui.apps/src/main/content/META-INF/vault/definition/.content.xml
create mode 100644 ui.apps/src/main/content/META-INF/vault/filter.xml
create mode 100644 ui.apps/src/main/content/META-INF/vault/nodetypes.cnd
create mode 100644 ui.apps/src/main/content/META-INF/vault/properties.xml
create mode 100644 ui.apps/src/main/content/jcr_root/apps/my-aem-project/install/.vltignore
create mode 100644 ui.apps/src/main/content/jcr_root/conf/.content.xml
create mode 100644 ui.apps/src/main/content/jcr_root/conf/my-aem-project/.content.xml
create mode 100644 ui.apps/src/main/content/jcr_root/conf/my-aem-project/settings/.content.xml
create mode 100644 ui.apps/src/main/content/jcr_root/conf/my-aem-project/settings/wcm/.content.xml
create mode 100644 ui.apps/src/main/content/jcr_root/conf/my-aem-project/settings/wcm/policies/.content.xml
create mode 100644 ui.apps/src/main/content/jcr_root/conf/my-aem-project/settings/wcm/policies/_rep_policy.xml
create mode 100644 ui.apps/src/main/content/jcr_root/conf/my-aem-project/settings/wcm/template-types/.content.xml
create mode 100644 ui.apps/src/main/content/jcr_root/conf/my-aem-project/settings/wcm/template-types/_rep_policy.xml
create mode 100644 ui.apps/src/main/content/jcr_root/conf/my-aem-project/settings/wcm/templates/.content.xml
create mode 100644 ui.apps/src/main/content/jcr_root/conf/my-aem-project/settings/wcm/templates/_rep_policy.xml
Push your first branch pushing-your-first-branch
When you have committed at least one revision, you can add the Cloud Manager repository as a remote, and then push your commits to it.
$ git remote add adobe <url>
$ git push adobe master
Counting objects: 36, done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (27/27), done.
Writing objects: 100% (36/36), 7.31 KiB | 1.83 MiB/s, done.
Total 36 (delta 6), reused 0 (delta 0)
To <url>
* [new branch] main -> main
Additional branches additional-branches
A single main branch may suffice for very simple projects, but in most cases, a more complex branching strategy is required. Many customers follow a process where day-to-day development activities are performed on a branch called develop. The develop branch is then merged into the main branch when it is time for a deployment.