Release branch analysis

SonarQube Cloud
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Have used sonarqube a few years back with great success; new company and I’m rolling it out again.

This time I’m trying sonarcloud, but we are also considering hosting sonarqube ourselves;

We use fairly standard git flow style for managing repo;

  • master = our production branch;
  • develop = our development branch;
  • feature/x which target the develop branch;
  • release/* = our release branches;

What I’m after at the moment is just to be able to see a list of new issues introduced in each historical release, and also to track the develop branch.

I’ve tried a lot of combinations, but it seems whenever I scan a release branch it either goes in as a long living branch but does not show me new issues introduced in that branch from the older release, or even as compared to the master branch.

I have gone through lots of documentation and the help forums, but it seems as though the way branches are managed have been in flux lately – which leads to lots of answers that are no longer relevant. This is my last attempt:

  • git checkout develop ; sonar-scanner -Dsonar.branch.name=master
  • git checkout release/20.3.5 ; sonar-scanner -Dsonar.branch.name=release/20.3.5

I was hoping you could reply with some steps to set this up properly.

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Hello @fromz,

Welcome to our community!

What I understand from your message is that you are using a version-based release model. For that, I would recommend the following:

  • Set the new code definition to “Previous version”. You can find the documentation here.
  • On the same page as above you will also find documentation on how to set up versions using the command line (if you are not using Maven or Gradle).
    • This can be done manually as well on the “Activity” tab of your project page.
  • Your release branches should be long-living branches. You can find the adjustable naming pattern on the following page: Project page --> Administration --> Branches & Pull Requests.

Using that approach, your new code will be everything that was added since the last release and will only show those issues.

Best,
Martin

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Thank you Martin!