I know that there is no "new project" button on SonarQube UI. However, I have two branches of the same project that I want to do analysis on. The thing is that since the project names are the same, SonarQube will upload the analysis results of the two branches into the same project on SonarQube Server. How do I configure SonarQube so that one branch will upload analysis results to one project and the other branch will upload results to another project on SonarQube server?
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You might want to look at this part of the Sonar documentation, specifically at the sonar.branch parameter. It seems to be designed for what you want to do, and is working that way for us.
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As the sonar.branch parameter is deprecated and the Developer Edition costs money, one possible option it to use the already mentioned branch plugin for SonarQube Community Edition (LGPL).
Update: seems like the repo is gone, not sure why. Active fork can be found here.
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If you use SonarQube Runner, then you have to change the sonar.projectKey property to different values. If you use maven based analyses, then add -Dsonar.projectKey="Something" to your command. Example:
mvn sonar:sonar -Dsonar.projectKey="My project in first branch"
mvn sonar:sonar -Dsonar.projectKey="My project in second branch"
You can change the project name in a similar way with the sonar.projectName property.
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This blog post by the SonarQube team suggests that treatment of branches will be improved in version 6.
Additionally, if you are using pull requests, have a look at its pull request analysis plugins (both GitHub and BitBucket at the moment).
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The sonar.branch parameter is deprecated from sonar version 7.1 so, for alternative for that and having separate branch analysis on sonarQube version 7.1 on-words you can use something like this.
I assume you have maven project. if not just remove -D from it and use it.
mvn sonar:sonar -Dsonar.projectKey=<projectname>
mvn sonar:sonar -Dsonar.projectName=<project-name>
The project key should be unique. Otherwise it will combine the result of other branches who has the same project key.
