Re: Git Plugin Checkout From Branch With Tag
Thamks Mark! So how would I go about checking out a branch based on a point in
time (a label in most systems)? Is there a way to snap a label and then check
out based on that label or are we resigned to only deal in tip revisions?Sent
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Original message From: Mark Waite
Date: 4/14/21 1:44 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Jenkins Users
Subject: Re: Git Plugin Checkout From Branch
With Tag On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 10:22 AM Eric Fetzer
wrote:Well if I don't tell it what branch to get, how will it get the right
branch? Sorry, Github is a paradigm shift for me. I've been using StarTeam
for 20 years and github for just a few weeks now...No problem. Been through
that paradigm shift. Took a long time before the key git concepts finally
registered.A git tag represents a specific commit. A checkout of a tag does
not need a branch. In your case, you're asking for a branch and a tag. The
git plugin decided to give you the branch instead of the tag. If you only ask
for a tag, it will checkout the commit at that tag.Mark Waite On Wed, Apr 14,
2021 at 10:13 AM Mark Waite wrote:Don't use a
branch parameter. Place the tag name in the "Branches to build" field.
Compare my screen shots and your screen shots. You have more things in your
job definition than I have in mine. Those extra things are causing the
behavior you're seeingOn Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 8:32 AM Eric Fetzer
wrote:So I've tried to incorporate what you've said,
Mark, but it still just clones the tip revision (9.9.9.10 in this case). Here
are my tags:git show-ref --tags -d4efbdb878c77557d050abbd228fc377adb9419b0
refs/tags/1.0.0.1799eda70c5f052a6f8e757b044b3b60f704a705a
refs/tags/1.0.0.1^{}c516e3681d2675d4e407b3c26ddfc7da0404c898
refs/tags/1.0.0.240bf9dd858780d79facfb789921f53d673c08dc9
refs/tags/1.0.0.2^{}9083515085949bfad75f028194226f5a9b1e5ecf
refs/tags/9.9.9.1049b0f2cfbf93f36acf6b2124d589a64940eecf18
refs/tags/9.9.9.10^{}019b3f3c634b9071c43f570a62c1191be05c0f4e
refs/tags/9.9.9.9b2f49473794ad74af0e5943f9292e57e05938fbe
refs/tags/9.9.9.9^{}I'm trying to get 9.9.9.9. Here is my setup:It is honoring
the branch specifier for branch, but not for tag. I've tried it with just
${tag_name} as well as with tags/${tag_name} as well as refs/tags/${tag_name}.
What am i doing wrong? Thanks!!!On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 8:06 AM Eric Fetzer
wrote:Thanks for the detailed description Mark! Only
one thing confuses me, I don't see you specifying the branch to build anywhere
in there. Can you explain that to me because I have to specify the branch as
well as the tag?On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 7:42 PM Mark Waite
wrote:On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 5:57 PM eric.fetzer
wrote:I am SO sorry Mark, I confused this Jenkins
thread with a totally unrelated support ticket. I'm not using pipeline, just
the git plug in in conjuction with git parameters. What exactly do you mean by
fetching the tags?I defined a Jenkins Freestyle job that fetches a specific tag
and verifies within the job that the specific tag was fetched. You can read
the job definition if that helps.Crucial portions of the job definition
included:Define the parameter for the tag to checkoutUse the parameter in the
checkout as the local branch nameI believe the default behavior is to fetch
tags, but I included it in the job definition as part of "Advanced clone
behaviors" to be certain.I enabled "Honor refspec on initial clone" because
that test repository is very large and I only wanted a specific branch in the
clone. You probably won't need that option, though it does no harm to enable
it.Mark Waite Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device Original message
From: Mark Waite Date: 4/13/21 7:29 PM
(GMT-05:00) To: Jenkins Users Subject: Re:
Git Plugin Checkout From Branch With Tag As far as I can tell, you didn't
provide the context of the old conversation. The steps you've attempted and
the context where you're trying those steps are not clear to me. The comments
that follow are my guesses of things that might help you.If you're using
Jenkins Pipeline and want to checkout a tag in your parameterized job, you must
use the 'checkout scm' step rather than the 'git' step. The Pipeline snippet
generator will help you generate the correct syntax for your desired checkout.
There is a brief video included in the git plugin documentation that shows how
to use the Pipeline snippet generator. The git step documentation warns that
'checkout' is the preferred step and that tag checkout is not supported with
the git step.If you're using a Freestyle job, then you may need to check that
you're fetching the tags and that the tag parameter you're providing is being
placed in the "Branch to build" as a variable to be expanded.Mark WaiteOn
Tuesd
Re: Git Plugin Checkout From Branch With Tag
I am SO sorry Mark, I confused this Jenkins thread with a totally unrelated
support ticket. I'm not using pipeline, just the git plug in in conjuction
with git parameters. What exactly do you mean by fetching the tags?Sent from
my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
Original message From: Mark Waite
Date: 4/13/21 7:29 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Jenkins Users
Subject: Re: Git Plugin Checkout From Branch
With Tag As far as I can tell, you didn't provide the context of the old
conversation. The steps you've attempted and the context where you're trying
those steps are not clear to me. The comments that follow are my guesses of
things that might help you.If you're using Jenkins Pipeline and want to
checkout a tag in your parameterized job, you must use the 'checkout scm' step
rather than the 'git' step. The Pipeline snippet generator will help you
generate the correct syntax for your desired checkout. There is a brief video
included in the git plugin documentation that shows how to use the Pipeline
snippet generator. The git step documentation warns that 'checkout' is the
preferred step and that tag checkout is not supported with the git step.If
you're using a Freestyle job, then you may need to check that you're fetching
the tags and that the tag parameter you're providing is being placed in the
"Branch to build" as a variable to be expanded.Mark WaiteOn Tuesday, April 13,
2021 at 1:21:39 PM UTC-6 eric@gmail.com wrote:Tried a bunch more stuff
using Git Parameters:https://plugins.jenkins.io/git-parameter/Again, I can
checkout from the branch, but not using the tag. I set a git parameter for
branch and then put it in the branch specifier and that worked. I added
another for tag, then put that in the same branch specifier after a space and
got an error. If I put it in an additional branch specifier, it seems to have
gotten ignored. Just got the tip revision from that branch.On Tue, Apr 13,
2021 at 12:57 PM eric@gmail.com wrote:OK, I think I've
tried everything in this OLD conversation, but none of them work. I have no
issues checking out from a branch using branch specifier. I've tried adding on
to the specifier: ${my_branch} tags/${my_tag}. Have also added another branch
and used this sort of thing (as well as every other way they said to do it in
that thread). Every way seems to just get the tip revision of all the files in
that branch. Does anyone have guidance of how to get this done? Thanks! Eric
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Re: GitHub Clone to Different Local Directory
Thanks Mark, I'll check it out. Has to beat the hokey workaround I worked up.
:)Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
Original message From: Mark Waite
Date: 3/26/21 10:49 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Jenkins Users
Subject: Re: GitHub Clone to Different Local
Directory Good point. How about the external workspace plugin from GSoC 2016?
https://plugins.jenkins.io/external-workspace-manager/On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at
8:00 PM eric.fetzer wrote:Thanks for the response
Mark.. I'm using freestyle. Doesn't checkout to a subdirectory only take
relative paths?Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device Original message
From: Mark Waite Date: 3/26/21 6:44 PM
(GMT-05:00) To: Jenkins Users Subject: Re:
GitHub Clone to Different Local Directory If you're using pipeline, change to
that directory with the dir('/users/username/projectname') { } wrapper around
the checkout step;If you're using a freestyle job, use the git plugin extension
'checkout to a subdirectory'On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 10:54 AM eric@gmail.com
wrote:OK, so this is kind of complex so hang with me.
We're moving from StarTeam to Github and I'm trying to reproduce what I'm doing
in StarTeam with Github. StarTeam was easy because I owned the repository
machine as well as administrated the tool. With Github, we're hosted. So I'm
admin on the project but can't create an RSA Token on the machine for easy
access. So I had to play around to make a personal access token work. In
order to make that access token work, I had to run the checkout job on a
different node so that it was running as a user that lived in Github as well
(access token's namesake). So when this job gets called from the jenkins job,
I want it to clone to the calling job's workspace
(/opt/jenkins/workspace/). Well since in order to authenticate,
it lives in it's own shell, the workspace for this guy, and where it wants to
clone to, is /home//. All that for my question: how
can I specify what folder to checkout to? I tried to use "checkout to specific
local branch" but it fails saying "is not a valid branch name". Well, yeah,
branch is referring to branch not folder, lol. In StarTeam this is easy, you
just specify working folder. Any help? Thanks!
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Re: GitHub Clone to Different Local Directory
Thanks for the response Mark.. I'm using freestyle. Doesn't checkout to a
subdirectory only take relative paths?Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
Original message From: Mark Waite
Date: 3/26/21 6:44 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Jenkins Users
Subject: Re: GitHub Clone to Different Local
Directory If you're using pipeline, change to that directory with the
dir('/users/username/projectname') { } wrapper around the checkout step;If
you're using a freestyle job, use the git plugin extension 'checkout to a
subdirectory'On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 10:54 AM eric@gmail.com
wrote:OK, so this is kind of complex so hang with me.
We're moving from StarTeam to Github and I'm trying to reproduce what I'm doing
in StarTeam with Github. StarTeam was easy because I owned the repository
machine as well as administrated the tool. With Github, we're hosted. So I'm
admin on the project but can't create an RSA Token on the machine for easy
access. So I had to play around to make a personal access token work. In
order to make that access token work, I had to run the checkout job on a
different node so that it was running as a user that lived in Github as well
(access token's namesake). So when this job gets called from the jenkins job,
I want it to clone to the calling job's workspace
(/opt/jenkins/workspace/). Well since in order to authenticate,
it lives in it's own shell, the workspace for this guy, and where it wants to
clone to, is /home//. All that for my question: how
can I specify what folder to checkout to? I tried to use "checkout to specific
local branch" but it fails saying "is not a valid branch name". Well, yeah,
branch is referring to branch not folder, lol. In StarTeam this is easy, you
just specify working folder. Any help? Thanks!
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