> I'm not clear how a new user installing Jenkins LTS will be able to choose > the 1.1.20 release of the git plugin. I had to download it separately, > name it appropriately (replace .hpi with .bak), copy it into the plugins > directory, then restart Jenkins. Once that was done, Jenkins core > recognized there was a 1.1.20 available for downgrade. Those steps seem > too complicated for the otherwise elegant and easy to administer Jenkins > system.
agree, I filed a jira requets for it [1] > I guess the best solution is to have a new version of the Git plugin > released to fix the problem... yes, this would be of course the best solution [1] https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-14530
