OK: Blame the operator. shallow: true made the difference. It was shallow: false before. So that makes the difference. I'm now getting the desired results inside Jenkins.
Randall On Monday, 3 August 2020 17:13:00 UTC-4, Randall Becker wrote: > > I know I should know the answer to this one, but it's eluding me. When I > run git describe from within a Jenkins pipeline, I am getting different > results from when git describe is run from a normal clone/checkout. This > happens even if I move to a detached head state. > > Obviously I'm missing an option in the Git clone in Jenkins but I can't > figure out what I'm missing. The current checkout is: > > checkout([$class: 'GitSCM', > changelog: true, > poll: true, > branches: [[name: 'master']], > extensions: [ > [$class: 'CleanBeforeCheckout'], > [$class: 'SubmoduleOption', disableSubmodules: false, > parentCredentials: true, > recursiveSubmodules: true, reference: '', > trackingSubmodules: false]], > doGenerateSubmoduleConfigurations: false, extensions: [ > [$class: 'CleanCheckout'], > [$class: 'CloneOption', timeout: 60, shallow: true], > [$class: 'CheckoutOption', timeout: 60], > ], > userRemoteConfigs: [[url: 'git:// > git.samba.org/rsync.git']] <http://git.samba.org/rsync.git'%5D%5D>]) > > shallow makes no difference - I don't think it's supported anymore, > correct? > > Inside Jenkins, git describe reports 47351c2b. > In a standard clone, detached head (or on a branch) at this commit, I get > v3.2.3pre1-9-g47351c2b, which is what I'm expecting. > > Thanks, > Randall > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/28e96d92-7e98-41c4-a69d-ec1554d35275o%40googlegroups.com.
