Jenkins Git Publisher tag not picking up environment variables

Question

I've been setting up my jenkins windows service to build all my projects, and have now got to the stage where I want jenkins to create a tag to indicate a successful build.

I'm attempting this as a post build step using the Git Publisher module.

My settings are as follows:

• Push Only If Build Succeeds - Yes
• Merge Results: No
• Tag to push: %BUILD_NUMBER%
• Create new tag: Yes
• Target remote name: origin/master

The log file tells me that it's

Pushing tag %BUILD_NUMBER% to repo origin/master

and that is what I see within my git repository. I have tried other environment variables to no avail. The help says:

Environment variables may be used in the tag name - they will be replaced at build time.

which isn't what I'm seeing. What I'm trying to achieve is that I push a tag which is named after the successful build number.

How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

It works if I use $BUILD_NUMBER instead of %BUILD_NUMBER%