Manage commit sources

Commit sources enable your external repositories to participate in traceability.

Create or find an existing Tool to group your commit source under

1. From the desired project context, navigate to Project Admin > Tools.
2. Determine whether a “Tool” exists that represents a logical container for your desired source. For instance, if you are adding a source to represent an external Git repository, look for a tool representing the Git server in question.
   1. If a Tool exists already, click the Tool’s title to edit the Tool.
   2. If a Tool does not exist, click Add Tool.

Edit an existing commit source

3. To edit an existing commit source, locate the Data Source in question on the Edit Tool screen. You can edit the display name for any commit source. Commit sources can be defined with one of two repository types:
   • Project repositories: housed within TeamForge projects
   • External repositories: housed outside of TeamForge projects
   Important: Once defined, you cannot switch the repository type. For external repositories, you can edit the repository URL. For project repositories, "Source Code view" permission is required and once selected and saved to a source, the project repository selection may not be altered. To work around this constraint, create a new source with a new repository and deactivate the old source.
4. Click Update to save your changes.
   Note: While editing an existing source configuration, you can toggle a source from Active to Inactive, which will stop TeamForge from collecting data from that source; toggle back to Active to resume data collection from the source.

Create a new commit source

5. If this is a new Tool, first select the Tool Type in the drop-down menu. For instance, if you’re adding an external Git Tool instance, select External Git.
6. Select the Include Traceability check box. A blank data source appears. If this is an existing Tool with existing sources, click the Data Source + (Add Source) icon to add a new blank source.
   1. Provide a display name for the commit source. This display name will help you differentiate the source in lists throughout the user interfaces where this source appears. The display name can be up to 100 alphanumeric characters in length.
   2. Select the repository type. Your source may be either a TeamForge project repository or an "external" repository.
      • Project repositories: repositories housed within TeamForge projects
      • External repositories: repositories housed outside of TeamForge projects
      Note: Sources for Project repositories are created automatically.You need "Source Code view" permission to see available project repositories.
   3. For External repositories, enter your repository URL. This is likely the URI used to check out code or a WebDAV-enabled URL.
      • For Subversion repositories: run the svn info command inside the working copy and copy/paste the value of the "URL" field.
      • For Git repositories: run the git remote show origin inside the working tree and use the value of the "Fetch URL" field, without the "username@".

      For example, if your Subversion repository URL is set to https://forge.example.com/svn/repos/myproject, TeamForge Orchestrate collects messages from the "myproject" repository and all repositories under "myproject" such as https://forge.example.com/svn/repos/myproject/branches/mybranch.

7. Click Update.