It depends on what branch you are pulling. If it’s tests-passed, then you are likely to get a different version at every rebuild /bootstrap. You could or either a beta version or a commit id there to see that things stay the same.
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thanks @pfaffman . Quick clarification. By branch do you mean the branch of discourse_docker or is there another setting that can lock the main discourse to a certain branch? Just to be clear, in my example, I am not deliberately pulling new code for either discourse_docker or discourse . I’m getting the feeling that discourse_docker does either one, or both behind the scenes. Ideally I would want to disable this behaviour so I can get a repeatable build. Is this possible?
Launcher will pull the version of Discourse specified by the params: version: key in web_only.yml. As described in that file, the default is tests-passed.
In addition, plugins will normally update unless you pin a version in their git clone.