Note that in Jenkins, copying files directly from another workspace is an 
anti-pattern.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com 
> [mailto:jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Maciej Jaros
> Sent: 27 April 2015 09:40
> To: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: Efficiently copying artifacts
> 
> Simon Richter (2015-04-25 02:02):
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a project that outputs a few large files (compiled DLL and static
> > library) as well as a few hundred header files as artifacts for use by
> > the next project in the dependency chain. Copying these in and out of
> > workspaces takes quite a long time, and the network link is not even
> > near capacity, so presumably handling of multiple small files is not
> > really efficient.
> >
> > Can this be optimized somehow, e.g. by packing and unpacking the files
> > for transfer? Manual inspection of artifacts is secondary, I think.
> 
> If some of the files remain unchanged then it can be done more
> efficently when you NOT pack the files. You could for example create a
> respository (SVN) for artifacts and instead of copying all files you
> would simple run `svn update` and get only changed files. Another option
> would be using rsync for synchronisation but that might not work as good
> as SVN would.
> 
> Regards,
> Nux.
> 

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