How History and Rollback page record a commit in git

[ThaiNguyen86]

Hi everyone,

I'am using gitlab and ArgoCD for CD/CI

My workflow is Gitlab-CI build image for dev/staging/uat/prod -> Argocd image updater update manifest config in develop branch (for dev/staging/uat env) and main (for prod). On History and rollback page of dev application have a commit from staging and uat manifest like update image tag from staging-xxxx to staging-xxxx. Is there any solution to resolve it. Could ArgoCD record commit from specific folder in branch ?.

Thanks for reading and answering.

[kostis-codefresh]

Check https://argocd-monorepo-controller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

[lohitkolluri]

This is expected behavior actually—ArgoCD's History page just shows every git commit that was synced for that application. Since dev, staging, and uat are all updating manifests on the same branch, those commits show up across all their respective apps.

There isn't a built-in way to tell ArgoCD "only show commits that touched this specific folder." But here are a few approaches:

1. Per-environment branches (cleanest fix)
Give each environment its own branch—like develop-dev, develop-staging, develop-uat—and point each ArgoCD app to its respective branch. Then the History page only shows commits relevant to that env.

2. ApplicationSets with Git generators
If you want to stay on one branch, an ApplicationSet can generate an app per environment by scoping each one to a specific path. Still, all commits will show in History since they're on the same branch.

3. ArgoCD Monorepo Controller
The monorepo-controller can help with path-based scoping in a monorepo setup, as kostis mentioned.

The branch-per-environment approach is what most teams end up doing—it also gives you better control over promotions and rollbacks per environment. Hope that helps!

[ThaiNguyen86]

Thank you so much, I have one more question: History and rollback page only appears commit when i sync all application, isn't it ? Only sync any resource will not store commit to history and rollback page ? Thank you