support cloning multiple git repositories about smooth-checkout-buildkite-plugin HOT 2 CLOSED

The way things are being done right now is that we have a custom checkout hook in our plugin which handles the checkout by taking the information from the configuration(url and ref). But, according to buildkite documentation for the checkout hook, if there are multiple checkout hooks present then only the first one is run.

So the solution suggested above will be hard to implement, since each will create a separate checkout hook but only the first would be run. I would suggest that we do it something like smooth-secrets where an array of secrets configuration(secrets) is provided under the same plugin definition. So it would look something like this

steps:
  - command: echo "Checks out multiple repositories"
    plugins:
      - hasura/smooth-checkout#v2.0.0:
          repos:
            - config:
              - url: [email protected]:<username>/<reponame1>.git
              - url: [email protected]:<username>/<reponame1>.git
            - config:
              - url: [email protected]:<username>/<reponame2>.git
                ref: main

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Ah! Nice catch about the usage of multiple checkout hooks. The YAML that you proposed looks good. (additionally, it may help us to re-use our mirroring logic to the fullest) 👍

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