Is there a work-around for this?

Okay, so to delete the undeleted stuff, it looks like you do this:

go into the Jenkins directory on the master
go into the subdirectory for the job
see the subdirectory for promotions?
Go in there and delete whatever offends you.

Um, maybe make a backup of everything before you start, eh?

I'm seeing the same thing. Jenkins ver. 1.439. Jenkins promoted builds plugin 2.4

This doesn't reproduce anymore with Jenkins v1.488 and promoted-builds-plugin v2.8. It's probably a duplicate of JENKINS-12799 which has been fixed in v2.8?

Definitely fixed at least in version 2.10 of the plugin.

I'm seeing this happen again on v2.22 of this plugin.

We renamed a promotion process and it resulted in double stars. We changed the name back and added a 2nd identical promotion process with the new name and deleted the old one. Still results in double stars.

I should note, that this is happening to a job inside of a new folder. I don't know if that would make a difference or not.

I saw this in v2.19. I thought updating to latest might fix it, but it continues to happen in v2.23.1. Like mpeters this is happening for a job in a folder.

This is not related to the usage of folders (the same problem exists without it).

Workaround:

• Open you job configuration
• Add new promotion with the previous name before the renaming. They can be empty. Myself I just checked "Promote immediately once the build is complete"
• Save your configuration
• Open you job configuration a second time
• Remove the promotion with the old name
• Save your configuration

Your job should now work correctly without breaking old promotions and the object model.

The issue will be fixed by JENKINS-27716 in promotion plugin > 2.23.1 if you are running on Jenkins >= 1.585

I actually tried this work around multiple times with v2.22 and it did not fix it. Hopefully 2.23.1 fixes this.