Change current working directory in Azure Pipelines

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soupault picture soupault · Dec 19, 2018 · Viewed 21.4k times · Source

I'm developing a CI for Python package in Azure Pipelines (https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image/blob/azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml). At some point, I need to step out of the source code directory to allow pytest to discover an installation of this package, and run the corresponding tests.

The issue I'm facing is related to the fact that cd, cd C:, etc commands do not seem to cause any effect, so that the current working directory remains unchanged (in this specific case, D:\a\1\s).

Is there a way to overcome the described limitation?

Answer

soupault picture soupault · Dec 19, 2018

It took many hours to find the solution, but, apparently, there is a way to specify working directory for specific script - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/utility/command-line?view=vsts&tabs=yaml :

- script: # script path or inline
  workingDirectory: #
  displayName: #
  failOnStderr: #
  env:  # mapping of environment variables to add

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