I have carefully named my project paths and folders so I can use JOB_NAME substitutions when cloning templates to create new jobs. All I have to do is copy a similar test (selenium/jmeter/junit/etc) and set the name of the job.

I just started using sparse checkout feature of git-client, to reduce the workspace bloat.

I want to use variable substitution to checkout the path 'test/${JOB_NAME}'.

The ${JOB_NAME} is not expanding, I get an error from the git-client, and the checkout fails. When I hardcode the jobname in the sparse checkout path field, it all works beautifully.