Hi,
we are using SonarCloud in our AzureDevOps pipelines for our C#/.NET solution. Currently, the yaml files are in the same repo as the code and the tests. We have multiple branches to maintain (LTS and STS versions). When making a change to a pipeline, we have to ensure that such a change ends up on all such branches. That’s time-consuming and error-prone. Therefore we want to migrate the yaml files to a separate repo and call them from the main repo using a config file, different per branch.
The first pipeline to migrate is the one running as part the automated checks on a PR, generating PR comments for code smells etc. in the code changed by the PR on hand. Although we only changed the yaml file from “run these steps” to “run the yaml file in the other repo”, now EVERY code smell etc. in the code of the main repo (there are a lot, I must admit) are now reported.
My suspicion is that it is related to a change how the checkout now works: With only one repository, the code is checked out to $(Build.SourcesDirectory), but with multiple repos, the code gets checked out to $(Build.SourcesDirectory)/$(Build.Repository.Name) for each repo. I think the base directory Sonar uses is still $(Build.SourcesDirectory), and therefore every file in the main repo is now found in ./$(Build.Repository.Name)/a/file/in/the/main/repo.cs instead of ./a/file/in/the/main/repo.cs and therefore considered as new, leading to all the PR comments.
I made various attempts setting sonar.sources and sonar.baseProjectDir in task SonarCloudPrepare@3, either without effect or leading to one of the following two errors:
a)
##[error]ERROR: File [filename] can’t be indexed twice. Please check that inclusion/exclusion patterns produce disjoint sets for main and test files
##[error][ERROR] SonarQube Cloud: Error while executing task Analyze: The process ‘C:\agent_work_tasks\SonarCloudPrepare_14d9cde6-c1da-4d55-aa01-2965cd301255\3.1.1\classic-sonar-scanner-msbuild\SonarScanner.MSBuild.exe’ failed with exit code 1
Please note that [filename] adheres to the pattern “$(Build.Repository.Name)/a/file/in/the/main/repo.cs”, i.e. including the repo name at the beginning.
b)
##[error]13:13:09.384 The project base directory doesn’t exist.
##[error][ERROR] SonarQube Cloud: Error while executing task Analyze: The process ‘C:\agent_work_tasks\SonarCloudPrepare_14d9cde6-c1da-4d55-aa01-2965cd301255\3.1.1\classic-sonar-scanner-msbuild\SonarScanner.MSBuild.exe’ failed with exit code 1
Am I on the right track to set sonar.sources and/or sonar.baseProjectDir? If no, what is the way to go? If yes, how to set them?
And, is there an option to print out the current value of these properties?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks, Claas
