Bonjour, A recent commit in docker_discourse breaks the ability to specify a tag (for instance v2.6.0) in the version: value of app.yml. This is useful to install older versions of discourse , for test purposes. The problem shows like this when specifying version: v2.6.0 when using e2eb085714dfcf2a…

Thanks for clarifying: that’s exactly the part I was missing. For those who are confused in the same way I was, getting a release tag of discourse can be done by: Making sure the version parameter is not set in app.yml, for instance:params: db_default_text_search_config: "pg_catalog.english" #…

I would not call this a bug per-se, but we want to offer some sort of instructions on how to get ancient versions of discourse installed even if it involves a more complicated template or something. @Falco is investigating.

[image] dachary: A recent commit in docker_discourse breaks the ability to specify a tag (for instance v2.6.0) in the version: I agree the depth should be configurable, perhaps via an environmental variable, defaulting to “shallow”; but configurable with a simple environmental.

I think the problem here is that the tags are not known locally when doing the checkout, like in the following (non discourse related) issue: What is git tag, How to create tags & How to checkout git remote tag(s) git, git-checkout, git-tag, git-refspec asked by …

[image] lucasbasquerotto: Running git fetch --all should solve the problem, but I don’t know how much it could increase the image size (unless another instruction clears the unused references later on). That doubles the repository size :slightly_frowning_face: [image] lucasbasquerotto: T…

[image] Falco: Problem is that at the image build time I don’t know what branch you will want in the future. You’re right, at that time we don’t know the version, it seems the base image uses the current version + tests-passed branch, although the branch will have the commit at the time in wh…

[image] lucasbasquerotto: When git pull is called, the entire repository is pulled , and can take several minutes, because only a shallow clone was done before. You can try running just the above instructions locally and see. Are you sure about that? ➜ discoursesmall git:(6a42acbf) docker r…

@lucasbasquerotto you are correct to point out that the git pull is not strictly necessary though, we’ve removed it here This should allow other branches (or forks) to play a little nicer with discourse_docker moving forward :slight_smile:

Yes, I see that it does a fetch and then a checkout in the correct branch after the pull, so I think the git pull is not necessary (I haven’t tested tough). For tags it seems that I still need to fetch the tag separately, but it seems doable, furthermore the branches are more commonly used, so the …

Is it safe to assume that the version option in configuration file standalone.yml has no effect? samples/standalone.yml d9f2f312c db_default_text_search_config: "pg_catalog.english" ## Set db_shared_buffers to a max of 25% of the total …

It still has an effect, but it can only be set to branches now.

Shallow git fetch regression in discourse_docker

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Falco (Falco) December 31, 2020, 4:02pm 15

Try adding the mentioned key and using an older image from https://hub.docker.com/r/discourse/base/tags

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Shallow git fetch regression in discourse_docker

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