Jenkins build outside of workspace

Question

I am new to Jenkins/Hudson and am trying to migrate a C make-based project from buildbot. For legacy reasons, the build system is hard-coded to build outside of the versioned source tree (git), one directory above, in a separate directory. E.g.:

workspace
  .git
  foo
  bar
build
  artifacts

Besides the fact that it ends up creating a directory outside the workspace, Jenkins won't recognize items in the build/ directory above to archive as artifacts.

How can I make this kind of build system work with Hudson? Building in-source-tree is not a short-term option. The only option I found was "use custom workspace," but all this does it hard-code the workspace directory to some other directory.

Answer 1

To answer my own question: there is indeed an option in Jenkins git plugin to check out to a local subdirectory instead of the root of the workspace. With the git plugin, click on the Advanced button and fill in the field "Local subdirectory for repo (optional)".