Clean builds with Multibranch Workflow

Question

Using Multibranch Workflow, the command to check out looks like

checkout scm

I can't find a way to tell Jenkins to perform a clean checkout. By "clean," I mean it should remove all files from the workspace that aren't under version control.

Answer 1

I run into the same problem and here is my workaround. I created a new scm object for the checkout and extended the extensions with the CleanBeforeCheckout. But i kept the other configurations like branches and userRemoteConfigs.

checkout([
    $class: 'GitSCM',
    branches: scm.branches,
    extensions: scm.extensions + [[$class: 'CleanBeforeCheckout']],
    userRemoteConfigs: scm.userRemoteConfigs
])

It's still not perfect because you have to create a new object :(

Answer 2

I'm not sure if this answers the original question or not (I couldn't tell if the intention was to leave some files in the workspace) but why not just remove the workspace first, this would allow a clean checkout:

stage ('Clean') {
    deleteDir()
}

stage ('Checkout') {
    checkout scm 
}