Re: Central Git Checkout

2013-12-19 Thread David Gayman
ommand line > implementation (rather than JGit) and it requires that you are not using > include regions, exclude users or exclude regions. > > Mark Waite > > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 8:05 PM, David Gayman wrote: > >> Sure and I see how using a lot of small git repo

Re: Central Git Checkout

2013-12-16 Thread David Gayman
Sure and I see how using a lot of small git repos, as opposed to one large repo, could be beneficial. But for established code bases this is often not the case. On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 10:01 PM, David Gayman wrote: > Nice, I wasn't aware of shallow or reference clones. This could be

Re: Central Git Checkout

2013-12-16 Thread David Gayman
Nice, I wasn't aware of shallow or reference clones. This could be helpful. One more note: The jenkins server is set up as a web server to the outside world. Our build machines are not exposed as servers. For security reasons no source code is allowed on the jenkins server; but it would be prefera

Re: Central Git Checkout

2013-12-16 Thread David Gayman
Greg, Thank you for responding, I am somewhat new to git and had no idea about the --reference option. Your solution looks like basically the best way to do this. I still wonder why there are no options out-of-the-box to: 1) Set up only one cloned repository per project, and 2) Refuse to check o

Re: Windows XP Slave

2013-07-29 Thread David Gayman
I tried this procedure including running under the correct user, and it works, but there have been reliability issues. Occasionally the service has failed to start for no apparent reason. This has not happened since I uninstalled (sc delete jenkinsservice-C__jenkins), and re-installed the service.