Gearset

What version control is, and how it benefits your team

A brief introduction to version control

Module 5. Harness the power of version control through Gearset

Gearset and git

Valerio Chang

Jason Mann

Evan Craven

Version control

A practical guide to setting up a new source control repository as the source of truth in a Gearset release pipeline

How to set up a new source control repository

Gearset supports the Metadata API and SFDX source format directory structure in version control

Structuring your source control repository

This article walks through how to connect to popular on-premise source control systems via username/password, and how to troubleshoot issues

Connecting to popular on-premise source control systems

Deploy to and from your hosted Bitbucket source control provider

Integrating with Bitbucket

Deploy to and from your ADO server for source control

Integrating with Azure DevOps Server

Deploy to and from your hosted GitLab source control provider using Gearset

Integrating with GitLab

Deploy to and from your hosted Azure DevOps (ADO) source control provider with Gearset

Integrating with Azure DevOps

Deploy to and from your hosted GitHub source control provider using Gearset

Integrating with GitHub

This guide details how to set up a connection to your GitHub Enterprise instance using an OAuth App.

Integrating with GitHub Enterprise Server through an OAuth App

Deploy to and from your own GitLab instance using Gearset

Integrating with Self-Managed/Dedicated GitLab

Deploy to and from Bitbucket Server / Bitbucket Data Center using Gearset

Integrating with Bitbucket Server / Bitbucket Data Center

This guide walks you through integrating Gearset with your GitHub or GitHub Enterprise instance through a GitHub App

Integrating with GitHub or GitHub Enterprise through a GitHub App

Managing source control connections

Handling merge conflicts in your metadata with Gearset and your version control system

A guide to merging Salesforce metadata

Custom metadata filter versus package.xml

How to enforce code reviews and approvals with branch protection rules, to make sure all pull requests are tested before promotion

Enforcing code review before promotion with branch protection rules

How Gearset applies package filtering to your comparison results

Filtering comparison results by package.xml

Connecting any Git-based source control system comes with its limitations

Limitations of custom Git connections

How to enable or disable the requirement for Gearset-related status checks to pass before merging a pull request in GitHub

Managing status check rules in GitHub

Instructions on the correct format and setup that your git repository needs to run LWC tests as part of a CI job run in Gearset.

Source control setup for LWC test runs

Decide whether to deploy metadata associated with managed packages into version control

Should I source control managed packages?

4 tips on working with source controlled metadata, structuring your repository, and working with package.xml files

Tips for comparing metadata in source control repositories

How to ensure that your metadata is deployed in the correct format

Why is my metadata deployed to source control in SFDX source or MDAPI format?

Why does a branch on GitHub show ‘this branch is X commits ahead, Y commits behind main’ and what does it actually mean?

What does a commit being ‘ahead’ or ‘behind’ mean when looking at my branches in GitHub?

What does Gearset’s repo dependency cleaner do?

How to set up GPG commit signing in Gearset

Commit signing

How can I uninstall managed packages from my source control repository?

Branch management

This article talks about why Salesforce namespaces can be added to some XML nodes

Salesforce namespace being added to XML node(s) in source control

Add Salesforce code analyzer to your Gearset pipeline via GitHub, identify problems in code sooner and continuously enforce code quality.

Using the Salesforce code analyzer official GitHub action with Gearset

How GitHub treats commits in determining branch protection rule checks

Why do irrelevant validations show up in my pull request in GitHub?

Common stumbling blocks to adopting version control

Why don't more teams use version control?

How can you enforce particular requirements on your Pull Requests when using Azure DevOps?

Managing status check rules in Azure DevOps (ADO)

Understanding the cause and resolution of the "The merge-base changed after approval" GitHub message

Why are my reviews being dismissed in my Pipeline? (GitHub)

Nicole Bazarova

Advanced source control features

Required configuration for triggering CI validation after PR creation for AWS CodeCommit integration

EventBridge configuration for AWS CodeCommit

How to set up your CI job with webhooks, to deploy changes made to a branch

Setting up CI job webhooks for AWS CodeCommit

Set up a repository and users on AWS CodeCommit to use with Gearset Pipelines

Setting up AWS CodeCommit as a source control provider in Gearset

How to set up your Pipeline with webhooks, to deploy changes made to a branch

Setting up Pipeline webhooks for AWS CodeCommit

Chris Mead

Documentation on how to setup AWS CodeCommit for new users

AWS CodeCommit

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