There have been a couple of requests for an environment variable that publishes the local branch name. The current version of the Git Plugin has a new feature that targets Maven release builds, but can be leveraged by other builds.
The maven release plugin pushes a commit to git using the local branch name as: git push origin local-branch:local-branch The maven-release-plugin relies on the local branch name being the same as the remote branch name. To facilitate this, the Git plugin version 2.4.4 has a new feature. You can configure the "checkout to specific local branch" behaviour as null (empty string) or ** (star star) to indicate that you want the code checked out to a local branch using the remote branch name. origin/master checked out to local branch master origin/my-new-feature checked out to local branch my-new-feature. In addition, when the "checkout to specific local branch" behaviour is configured, a new environment variable GIT_LOCAL_BRANCH is published. If the behaviour is configured as null or **, the property will contain the resulting local branch name sans the remote name. This new functionality has not been described in the Git Plugin documentation yet, perhaps waiting for some positive feedback. I'm using it quite successfully. Michael -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/046e261b-f110-48bb-8af7-161e64c0bfa9%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
