Automated Versioning Manager (AVM)

Overview

The Automated Versioning Manager is a tool that helps manage Appian applications and database DDL files in a version control system. Given an Appian application ZIP file, the Automated Versioning Manager performs the following actions:

Unzips the application and organizes the artifact XML files in the repository.
Automates the check-in and check-out operations with the version control system.
Generates application packages for import in Appian based on the contents of the repository and a range of changes to include.

This tool is frequently used with the native, external deployment APIs (https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/22.1/Deployment_Rest_API.html) or the Automated Import Manager (AIM) (https://community.appian.com/w/the-appian-playbook/198/deployment-automation). Unless you are doing deployments for the Admin Console, we suggest using the native APIs.

Key Features & Functionality

Version Control integration (Git, SVN)
Supports Appian applications and packages
Generate import package from hash ranges
Folder Listener to add contents to Version Control
Supports GitHub, GitLab, and BitBucket for Version Control

You can access the source code for AVM by exploding the ZIP file after download.

Note: This utility does not support Java version 9.0.

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vineeta3061 over 1 year ago

I'm getting the following error when executing addContents command

org.eclipse.jgit.errors.NoWorkTreeException: Bare Repository has neither a working tree, nor an index

Any pointers would be helpful.
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dtrowbri over 1 year ago in reply to vineeta3061

I got the same error.
The git repo I was working with had no files in it. So I created a simple README.MD file and pushed it to the git repo. The addContents action started to work for me then.

1. Navigate to local repo directory
2. Create README.MD file:

For mac or linux run command: echo "This repo contains the Appian objects" > README.MD

For Windows run command: notepad.exe README.MD then enter the text in the file and save the file

3. Initialize the git if you haven't already with command: git init -b {branch name}

4. Add the file you just created with: git add -A

5. Commit the files with command: git commit -m "{your message here}"

6. Set up the remote repo, if you haven't already done so: git remote add origin {http git url}

7. Push the README.MD file to the repo: git push origin {your branch here}

Then rerun the the AVM addContents command.

Hope this helps.
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dtrowbri over 1 year ago in reply to vineeta3061

I got the same error.
The git repo I was working with had no files in it. So I created a simple README.MD file and pushed it to the git repo. The addContents action started to work for me then.

1. Navigate to local repo directory
2. Create README.MD file:

For mac or linux run command: echo "This repo contains the Appian objects" > README.MD

For Windows run command: notepad.exe README.MD then enter the text in the file and save the file

3. Initialize the git if you haven't already with command: git init -b {branch name}

4. Add the file you just created with: git add -A

5. Commit the files with command: git commit -m "{your message here}"

6. Set up the remote repo, if you haven't already done so: git remote add origin {http git url}

7. Push the README.MD file to the repo: git push origin {your branch here}

Then rerun the the AVM addContents command.

Hope this helps.
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