Can I get Jenkins to build a git tag from a passed in parameter?

Question

Jenkins supports parametrized builds.

I have a deployment build that requires the tag to deploy to be specified via a parameter. (to deploy a particular tag to production)

Is there an easy way to do this with the git plugin?

I tried adding a parameter TAG_NAME, and then setting branch_specifier in the git plugin section of the job to $TAG_NAME. Dosen't work. I get:

ERROR: Couldn't find any revision to build. Verify the repository and branch configuration for this job. 

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Make the build parameterized and in the git URL box, put the name of the variable you've defined. For example: ${GIT_URL}. This should do it.

Answer 2

Will up oooold topic, since this one is in google's top. Spent some time on this question... Short answer: Extensible choice plugin + groovy script. This allows to make dropdown menu already filled with existing tags.

def gettags = "git ls-remote -t [email protected]:mycompany/com.someproject.git".execute() def tags = [] def t1 = [] gettags.text.eachLine {tags.add(it)} for(i in tags)     t1.add(i.split()[1].replaceAll('\\^\\{\\}', '').replaceAll('refs/tags/', '')) t1 = t1.unique() return t1 

Long answer here