So, you have a number of jobs that are mostly identical but there's a little bit that should work differently for them.
To me this sounds like a perfect case of multi-configuration job. https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Building+a+matrix+project Essentially, Jenkins will run your job a number of times but each run will have a different value for an environment variable. You can then vary the build behavior based on the environment variable. Try it, you'll like it. -- Sami 2012/6/15 Bram de Jong <bram.dej...@samplesumo.com>: > Hello all, > > > We have a lot of jobs which all should start exactly the same way ( > "i.e. check out these 5 repos, copy this here, this there" ) and then > a different part per job. > > We do want these jobs to be *separate* jobs though because each job is > building a different application with its own set of tests. > > How can I set this up easily in jenkins without having to write those > first steps over and over again? > > > thx! > > > - bram > > -- > Bram de Jong - CTO > SampleSumo BVBA, Wiedauwkaai 23 G, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium > Web: http://www.samplesumo.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/SampleSumo > Facebook: http://facebook.com/SampleSumo > Phone: +32 9 3355925 - Mobile: +32 484 154730
