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  1. Jenkins
  2. JENKINS-40468

Ability to force clone

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      Unlike git, the Mercurial "checkout" command only offers a "Clean Build" option which is used to purge the working directory.

      We need an equivalent of the "Wipe workspace and force clone" functionality available to the git plugin. Specifically, I am running into problems where the local repository contains more commits than the remote which is causing problems. I need to force a re-clone; otherwise, the script will need to be able to recover from a partially-updated repository after a failed build.

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          cowwoc cowwoc added a comment -

          No need. Users can simply invoke "deleteDir()" before "checkout()" and this will have the desired effect. Also, this design scales better than stuffing this functionality in the SCM plugin.

          cowwoc cowwoc added a comment - No need. Users can simply invoke "deleteDir()" before "checkout()" and this will have the desired effect. Also, this design scales better than stuffing this functionality in the SCM plugin.

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