/git-parameter-plugin

Jenkins/Hudson plugin for chosing Revision / Tag before build

Primary LanguageJava

General information

Under https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Git+Parameter+Plugin you find information about

  • Plug-Info (useage)
  • Known Limitations/Bugs

Here you find information relevant for developer for this plugin.

  • You may checkout/clone this project and build it by simply calling mvn clean install in the root of the checkout. Test your changes by going to your Jenkins-CI site and import the generated target/git-parameter.hpi by going to your base URL + jenkins/pluginManager/advanced. There you find an option to upload a plugin.
  • The Jenkins-CI of this plugin can be seen at DEV@cloud. The status is

ChangeLog

14/05/14 Version 0.3.2 (Code is same 0.3, needed because mvn release:prepare release:perform did not work)
14/05/14 Version 0.3.1 (Code is same 0.3, needed because mvn release:prepare release:perform did not work)
09/05/14 Version 0.3

  • Runs a fetch each time the user enters the “Build with parameter”.
  • With an empty workspace the tags are calculated after we made a checkout. This may take a long time.
  • Added MIT-LICENSE.txt to use the same license as Jenkins-CI.
  • Added Contributors.textile
  • Display month not minutes in date. Add HH.mm. Display only first 8 chars of SHA1 (Niklaus Giger)
  • Merging SortMode from graeme-hill
  • Add backup pluginRepository (Gabor Liptak)
  • Use GitTool to query configured location of the git executable (gliptak)
  • Upgrade to git 2.2.0. (christ66)
  • Run clone when fetch fails on workspace empty (Gabor Liptak)
  • Build against latest stable Jenkins-CI version 1.554.1
  • New maintainer/developer

02/21/12 Version 0.2

  • Corrected error – plugin wasn’t showing anything after change of main Git Plugin
  • Corrected major disfunctionality – plugin now it showing revisions only from correct job/project.
  • Adding support for choosing branch from which revisions/tags are returned

11/01/11 Version 0.1

  • Initial Release

TODO:

  • Add a new method listRemoteTags(URL) to git-client-plugin to use. Will speed up listing tags and avoids cloning/fetching the content.
  • Allow traductions by converting all html stuff to jelly
  • Add explanation when configuring the sort mode
  • Allow regular expressions when sorting.

Development history:

This plugin was offered to the community by lukanus (Łukasz Miłkowski <lukanus@uaznia.net>) end of 2011. He was active till February 2012.

In May 2014 ngiger (Niklaus Giger niklaus.giger) decided to maintain this plugin and bring in the various improvements made by others.