My Jenkins setup is one master server without executors and multiple build nodes.
I'm using multibranch pipelines to execute gradle builds.
The code is stored in SVN.
On the master server, the @script folder of the workspace for a branch contains the gradle wrapper scripts, the "gradle" folder of the repository and also another one of the folders (named "Tools") from the repository.
This means that a lot of disk space is consumed on master for data which isn't needed there - the gradle build is executed on the build node only.
Due to limited disk space on the master server this is a big problem for me to have unneeded data stored there.
This is specific to the SCM implementation. Jenkins itself supports partial checkout, but the plugin needs to provide support for it to avoid full directory checkout
Oleg Nenashev
added a comment - This is specific to the SCM implementation. Jenkins itself supports partial checkout, but the plugin needs to provide support for it to avoid full directory checkout
My main confusion stems from the fact that it's not a full directory checkout but a very weird partial one. None of the files which I can see are Jenkins pipeline files.
Tobias Geyer
added a comment - Thank you oleg_nenashev for the info.
My main confusion stems from the fact that it's not a full directory checkout but a very weird partial one. None of the files which I can see are Jenkins pipeline files.
Solved the mystery. The weird content of the @script folder is explained by the disk becoming full during the checkout, so lots of files couldn't be written.
Tobias Geyer
added a comment - Solved the mystery. The weird content of the @script folder is explained by the disk becoming full during the checkout, so lots of files couldn't be written.
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Tobias Geyer
added a comment - 
This is specific to the SCM implementation. Jenkins itself supports partial checkout, but the plugin needs to provide support for it to avoid full directory checkout