Index: ../jenkins-git-plugin/src/main/java/hudson/plugins/git/util/DefaultBuildChooser.java
IDEA additional info:
Subsystem: com.intellij.openapi.diff.impl.patch.CharsetEP
<+>UTF-8
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--- ../jenkins-git-plugin/src/main/java/hudson/plugins/git/util/DefaultBuildChooser.java	(date 1316994046000)
+++ ../jenkins-git-plugin/src/main/java/hudson/plugins/git/util/DefaultBuildChooser.java	(date 1338908213000)
@@ -167,6 +166,12 @@
                 Branch b = j.next();
                 boolean keep = false;
                 for (BranchSpec bspec : gitSCM.getBranches()) {
+                    if (bspec.getName().indexOf("${") >= 0) {
+                        // variable resolution is not possible here - we must not filter this branch
+                        verbose(listener, "Cannot resolve branch specifier {0}, filtering is disabled", bspec.getName());
+                        keep = true;
+                        break;
+                    }
                     if (bspec.matches(b.getName())) {
                         keep = true;
                         break;