Feature #3775
Updated by Tom Clegg over 9 years ago
Currently, in local mode, repository="arvados" only works if ./arvados/.git happens to exist when crunch-job runs.
New behavior:
* You can use an arbitrary git URL in your job's "repository" attribute.
* You can use the name of an Arvados-hosted repository. The named repo's fetch-url will be used. (This is likely to require SSH agent forwarding since the fetch-url is typically given as an SSH path.)
* You can specify a local filesystem path starting with @/@ or @./@ or @../@.
* *Compatibility issue:* When running jobs in your terminal, @"repository":"foo"@ in a job record used to mean "use @./foo@ or @./foo/.git@". Now it means "use hosted repository called foo" just like it would in a job submitted to the API server. To get the old behavior, you can now use @"repository":"./foo"@.
Unchanged (but relevant) behavior:
* You can override the job record's "repository" attribute by passing a different URL/name to crunch-job as a @--git-dir@ argument.
Caveats:
* Remote git URLs still aren't supported when submitting jobs to the API server to run on worker nodes: there, you can (still) only use the name of a hosted repository. New features only work when using @arv pipeline run --run-here@ or @arv-crunch-job@.