On 23 July 2018 at 14:26, Robert Munteanu <romb...@apache.org> wrote: > 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.
It's not always obvious which files will be needed beforehand. > Robert >
