Cloning additional repos

Drone Support
1

I’m trying to clone additional repos that my project depends on. I noticed that this example was given here in Evaluating Drone vs. others

pipeline:
  setup:
   image: docker:git
   commands:
     - git clone https://github.com/foo/bar.git
     - git clone https://github.com/foo/baz.git
     - git clone https://github.com/foo/qux.git

and this works, but doesn’t allow me to take advantage of netrc credentials, etc. I was wondering if using plugins/git might instead be used for this. Something like:

pipeline:
  foo:
    image: plugins/git
    remote: https://github.com/foo/bar.git
    path: /work/bar

However, it seems that passing remote and path to the plugins/git image doesn’t override the variables that drone sets during its implicit clone step. Any suggestions for this use case? Thanks!

2

the netrc credentials are used by any https git clone. So the below example will use the netrc file, assuming your repository is private which is a pre-requisite for drone to expose the credentials to your pipeline.

pipeline:
  setup:
   image: docker:git
   commands:
     - git clone https://github.com/foo/bar.git
     - git clone https://github.com/foo/baz.git
     - git clone https://github.com/foo/qux.git
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Be careful not to call the step “clone”. I think it is a reserved word and no error are given. Simply all the steps are skipped.