Why won’t Jenkins running on my Mac connect to a local git repo?

Question

I am trying to implement automated builds using Jenkins for my iOS projects. I added the Git plugin, but as soon as I try to put the URL for git in the git configuration for the project, it is showing the error in the screen shot below. Here Jenkins cannot clone from the repo to its workspace.

Answer 1

For the "Repository URL" field it is expecting a remote repository URL, something like [email protected]:github/hubot.git. It will use that url to copy down code to run the job against.

If you just want to run a job in a particular directory where you already have the code you want to work against, then leave this section empty. You can set the directory that you want to run a job in by 1. scroll to the "Advanced Project Options" section 2. click "Advanced" 3. Check "Use custom workspace"

For one off things, this is fine, but if you use this a lot, I think you'll find it more useful to commit your code to github and have jenkins clone down a fresh copy of code for each run.