On Wednesday, February 5, 2025 at 8:46:31 AM UTC-7 Xavier Raynaud wrote: Hi all,
In my Jenkinsfile, I use the checkout <https://www.jenkins.io/doc/pipeline/steps/workflow-scm-step/> step to perform a git checkout. My git repo has some submodules; which have also, themselves, submodules. As of today, I use the following checkout extentions: *[$class: 'CleanBeforeCheckout', deleteUntrackedNestedRepositories: true ]* *[$class: 'SubmoduleOption', disableSubmodules: false, parentCredentials: false, recursiveSubmodules: true, reference: '', threads: 4, timeout: 30, trackingSubmodules: false, shallow: shallow_clone, depth: 1],* The former extension runs "git clean -ffxd" before performing git checkout. But, as far as i know, this option is not propagated to submodules: in submodules, only "git -fxd" is performed. Therefore, some "phantom" gits repos can be left in submodules. Is there a way to run "git clean -ffxd" in submodules ? Could you perform the cleanup yourself in the Pipeline immediately before the checkout? Something like "sh '[ -d .git ] && git submodule foreach --recursive git clean -xffd'" Is it a known issue ? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51963783/what-is-the-workflow-to-clean-git-submodules-on-clones highlights some of the problems attempting to clean submodules on an existing clone https://issues.jenkins.io/browse/JENKINS-60727 asks to clean the submodules of submodules https://issues.jenkins.io/browse/JENKINS-55875 describes a failure case with submodules https://issues.jenkins.io/browse/JENKINS-27625 describes another case https://issues.jenkins.io/browse/JENKINS-14083 describes another case More examples of those are available. The complexities of handling submodules was one of the reasons why a Google Summer of Code project added git plugin support to the withCredentials Pipeline step. When all else fails, you can take complete control of the checkout and perform the exact git commands that you need for your submodule configuration. Mark Waite -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/87543d4f-af5e-4d60-b3a3-6a60e8dc2a3an%40googlegroups.com.
