On Mon, 2018-07-23 at 14:21 +0100, sebb wrote: > On 23 July 2018 at 08:45, Gavin McDonald <ga...@16degrees.com.au> > wrote: > > HI All, > > > > I'd like to ask a basic question. > > > > Is there any reason at all to keep the 'workspace' dirs of builds > > on the > > jenkins slaves ? > > Yes, if a test fails then the workspace may contain files and logs > that are necessary to debug the failure.
Would setting explicit archival settings not work around that? You can configure jenkins to archive e.g. **/target/surefire-reports/*.xml, which will keep these files on a per-build basis. Then the workspace cleanup, which probably has many more files, will not affect you. Robert
