Jenkins.md

Jenkins

• Use Archiving Artifacts / Copy Artifacts to copy files between jobs in the same pipeline (maybe) (SO)
  • Could also use copy workspace, but not sure how that would treat multiple parallel builds.
  • Maybe http://antagonisticpleiotropy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/implementing-real-build-pipeline-with.html

Pass a value from a script to Jenkins build steps (SO)

Can't just set environment variables in script steps because they are lost when the script step ends.

Instead, write them to a properties file, and then inject that into the subsequent step:

mkdir -p target
echo "CONTENT_VERSION=$(src/jenkins/content_version.sh)" > target/jenkins-env.properties

Then specify target/jenkins-env.properties in a Parameters from properties file parameters option.

Use local branch names in Git

From ref and ref, in the Git configuration for a job, add Additional Behaviours -> Check out to specific local branch with a value of ** or empty. This will mean that Git will attempt to give the checked-out branches the same branch name as in the remote repository (instead of having just a commit id).