Good point. How about the external workspace plugin from GSoC 2016?
https://plugins.jenkins.io/external-workspace-manager/
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 8:00 PM eric.fetzer <eric.fet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the response Mark.. I'm using freestyle. Doesn't checkout to
> a subdirectory only take relative paths?
>
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Mark Waite <mark.earl.wa...@gmail.com>
> Date: 3/26/21 6:44 PM (GMT-05:00)
> To: Jenkins Users <jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com>
> Subject: Re: GitHub Clone to Different Local Directory
>
> If you're using pipeline, change to that directory with the
> dir('/users/username/projectname') { } wrapper around the checkout step;
>
> If you're using a freestyle job, use the git plugin extension 'checkout
> to a subdirectory'
> <https://plugins.jenkins.io/git/#checkout-to-a-sub-directory>
>
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 10:54 AM eric....@gmail.com <eric.fet...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> OK, so this is kind of complex so hang with me. We're moving from
>> StarTeam to Github and I'm trying to reproduce what I'm doing in StarTeam
>> with Github. StarTeam was easy because I owned the repository machine as
>> well as administrated the tool. With Github, we're hosted. So I'm admin
>> on the project but can't create an RSA Token on the machine for easy
>> access. So I had to play around to make a personal access token work. In
>> order to make that access token work, I had to run the checkout job on a
>> different node so that it was running as a user that lived in Github as
>> well (access token's namesake). So when this job gets called from the
>> jenkins job, I want it to clone to the calling job's workspace
>> (/opt/jenkins/workspace/<project_name>). Well since in order to
>> authenticate, it lives in it's own shell, the workspace for this guy, and
>> where it wants to clone to, is /home/<username>/<project_name>. All that
>> for my question: how can I specify what folder to checkout to? I tried to
>> use "checkout to specific local branch" but it fails saying "is not a valid
>> branch name". Well, yeah, branch is referring to branch not folder, lol.
>> In StarTeam this is easy, you just specify working folder. Any help?
>> Thanks!
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