CruiseControl.Net: How Does One Clear Obsolete Build History?

Question

I just started using CCNet, and in the process of getting my build projects set up I racked up a lot of build history from trial and error. I really don't want to keep that old stuff around, but I can't seem to see where/how to get rid of it. I'm sure this is a silly question, and I apologize if I'm overlooking something that should be obvious. I did RTM and Google for about a half hour, and poked around my CCNet installation, but it's not jumping out at me. I deleted the state files for the projects (don't know if that has anything to do with it), but the old builds are still there if I drill into a project's stats from the dashboard. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Answered: I had explicitly set the artifacts directory to a location that was not under the CCNet server directory and consequently never looked in it again... went looking and, disco, there's the build histories.

Answer 1

Don't forget you can use Artifact Cleanup Publisher to keep your build history from growing to the size of Mars over time.

Answer 2

Assuming you have a project called "Dev" and you've installed CCNet into the default location, you'll have a folder called:

c:\Program Files\CruiseControl.NET\server\Dev

and a Dev.state file in:

c:\Program Files\CruiseControl.NET\server

Just delete both the folder and the state file.

Answer 3

What you're looking for are the "artifacts" folders. Check your ccnet.config file for the tag

Stop your service, delete the artifact directory folder, and restart your service.

Answer 4

The logs are stored in the artifacts directories under artifacts\MyProjectName\Build\log*.xml.

The State file stores things like the last build date, time, info.

Best to stop the service, and then delete the .state in ProgFiles\CC.net\server and also delete the artifacts\MyProjectName\Build\log.xml files.