grunt-track-revision

grunt-track-revision

Clone and checkout a revision from another repo

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.5

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-track-revision --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-track-revision');

The "track_revision" task

Overview

This is a very simple task cloning and updating a git repo each time the task is run.

grunt.initConfig({
  track_revision: {
    repo: 'https://github.com/macobo/track-revision.git', // repo to clone
    dir: 'tmp/output', // output directory
    revision: '0.2', // git tag, commit id or branch to follow
  },
});

Settings

repo

Type: String Required

Path to the git repo that should be cloned.

dir

Type: String Required

Output directory, relative to gruntfile.

revision

Type: String Default value: 'master'

Git tag, commit id or branch to check out each time the task is run

origin

Type: String Default value: 'origin'

Release History

• 0.2.0 initial release