Run git pull in target folder instead of clone

Drone Support
1

Is there a way to skip the prepending clone operation and just run a git pull instead?

2

Yes, you can customize the clone logic by following this guide:
https://docs.drone.io/pipeline/ssh/syntax/cloning/#custom-logic

3

How does this work when drone creates and uses a folder in /tmp instead of desired working directory?
See another question/feature idea I posted today.

4

The pipeline commands are always executed with the workspace as the current working directory. If the workspace were customized, the current working directory would reflect this.

5

And this workspace is always within a temporary location as set my TMPDIR environment variable?

So for example If within drone.yml we set the following:

workspace:
  base: foo
  path: bar
environment:
  TMPDIR: /tmp/baz

Then commands will run from this directory including git commands?
/tmp/baz/foo/bar/drone-${RANDOM}

6

if you want to customize the temporary directory location, you need to pass TMPDIR to the ssh runner (e.g. with docker run -e TMPDIR). This variable is not sourced from the yaml.

7

Thanks for clarifying.