Details
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Improvement
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Status: Open (View Workflow)
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Minor
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Resolution: Unresolved
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None
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Jenkins 2.242
Description
This is actually for the Workspace Cleanup Plugin (not listed in Components).
Request the ability to preserve the .git repository clone within a workspace when cleanWs() or an analogue is run within a pipeline. The need to run cleanWs came from our sysadmin because of heavy inode usage in multiple builds instead of disk free space needs. It takes over 2 hours to perform a clone from scratch, so we would like something that keeps the .git directory around. An exclusion pattern might be useful, like cleanButNot(['.git',...]).
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Randall Becker
created issue -
| Field | Original Value | New Value |
|---|---|---|
| Component/s | ws-cleanup-plugin [ 15930 ] | |
| Component/s | core [ 15593 ] |
Randall Becker
added a comment - I tried a similar approach with the same effect, using find and -exec rm leaving git, but that caused Jenkins to become very upset that the workspace had disappeared (I don't recall the error). cleanWs() seems aware explicitly that the workspace is being removed and avoids confusing Jenkins.
Randall Becker
added a comment - I tried a similar approach with the same effect, using find and -exec rm leaving git, but that caused Jenkins to become very upset that the workspace had disappeared (I don't recall the error). cleanWs() seems aware explicitly that the workspace is being removed and avoids confusing Jenkins.
You could consider calling sh 'git clean -xffd' as a way to clean the workspace of all untracked files.