Hudson/Jenkins Git build all branches

Question

We have a lot of developers creating feature branches that I would like to build. Nightly we run a code quality tool that needs to run on every branch. I also would not like a static configuration because the number of branches changes every few weeks.

Answer 1

In Git configuration there is a field 'Branch Specifier (blank for default): ' if you put there ** it will build all branches from all remotes.

having that you can use an environment variable ${GIT_BRANCH} e.g. to set a title for the build using https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Build+Name+Setter+Plugin or for other purposes

Answer 2

I had the same problem to be solved. Specifically, make a zip file of all branches and offer those as artifacts to be used in different test jobs.

In "Branches to build", put "**"

Then, Execute shell:

while read -ra ITEM; do   for i in "${ITEM[@]}"; do     git checkout $i     <do your stuff>   done done <<< $(git branch -r | grep -v "HEAD ->" | xargs -L 1 | cut -d'/' -f2) 

This reads the list of branches, checkouts each of them separately and allows to do stuff in each of them. The <<< command converts this output:

  origin/HEAD -> origin/master   origin/branch1   origin/master   origin/secondbranch 

into checkout usable list:

branch1 master secondbranch