We have a build that is working fine with git to monitor and build all branches in our repository.
- For Branches to build we use the default of: '**' - We skip internal tagging and we don't do any merging operations. To release a version of our product, we tag a git commit on one of our stable branches, then we want to build that specific tag to make the build to deploy. What we would like to do is setup our normal build to have and additional parameter: GOLD_BUILD_TAG So the steps we would like to do for a release build are: * Tag a commit using a gold tag. (ex: '2.8.3') * Load Jenkins and go to our normal build job, queue a manual build with the value of GOLD_BUILD_TAG set to 2.8.3 * Have Jenkins checkout the code for that tag and run the normal build scripts * The scripts will notice it is a gold build and do the right thing to create a package The problem is we can't figure out how to do the 3rd step and make Jenkins git plugin checkout the code for the tag. What are we missing? Is this possible? Can we do it using a parameter in a "normal" build? -Allen
