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[JENKINS-8656] Git SCM fails to build with parameterized builds with empty string #1986
Description
Create a freestyle build project with the following settings:
- This build is parameterized
- Name = BRANCH_SPECIFIER
- Default Value =
- Source Code Management
- Git
- Branch Specifier (blank for default): = $BRANCH_SPECIFIER
- Git
Then trigger a build with BRANCH_SPECIFIER set to default, the empty string. The build will fail with output similar to this:
GitAPI created
Pruning obsolete local branches
[workspace] $ git remote prune ssh://git@git.socrata.com/core
Fetching changes from the remote Git repository
Fetching upstream changes from ssh://git@git.socrata.com/core
[workspace] $ git fetch -t ssh://git@git.socrata.com/core +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
[workspace] $ git submodule init
[workspace] $ git submodule sync
[workspace] $ git config --get remote.origin.url
[workspace] $ git ls-tree HEAD
[workspace] $ git tag -l
[workspace] $ git rev-parse origin/
ERROR: Nothing to do
An easy workaround is to set the parameter default to "" or "*".
Originally reported by natacado, imported from: Git SCM fails to build with parameterized builds with empty string
- assignee:
abayer
- status: Closed
- priority: Minor
- component(s): git-plugin
- resolution: Fixed
- resolved: 2011-04-13T15:44:47+00:00
- votes: 0
- watchers: 1
- imported: 2025-12-02
Raw content of original issue
Create a freestyle build project with the following settings:
- This build is parameterized
- Name = BRANCH_SPECIFIER
- Default Value = <leave blank>
- Source Code Management
- Git
- Branch Specifier (blank for default): = $BRANCH_SPECIFIER
- Git
Then trigger a build with BRANCH_SPECIFIER set to default, the empty string. The build will fail with output similar to this:
GitAPI created Pruning obsolete local branches [workspace] $ git remote prune ssh://git@git.socrata.com/core Fetching changes from the remote Git repository Fetching upstream changes from ssh://git@git.socrata.com/core [workspace] $ git fetch -t ssh://git@git.socrata.com/core +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* [workspace] $ git submodule init [workspace] $ git submodule sync [workspace] $ git config --get remote.origin.url [workspace] $ git ls-tree HEAD [workspace] $ git tag -l [workspace] $ git rev-parse origin/ ERROR: Nothing to do
An easy workaround is to set the parameter default to "" or "*".
Activity
jenkins-infra-bot commentedon Feb 5, 2011
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Code changed in jenkins
User: Kohsuke Kawaguchi
Path:
changelog.html
http://jenkins-ci.org/commit/core/fd93cf05df65d831cc5724acdc1a009867937a34
Log:
Recording the fix in HUDSON-8656.
Yes, this is HUDSON-8656 and not
JENKINS-8656.jenkins-infra-bot commentedon Apr 13, 2011
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Code changed in jenkins
User: Andrew Bayer
Path:
src/main/java/hudson/plugins/git/GitSCM.java
http://jenkins-ci.org/commit/git-plugin/dc575dce269020afe79bf0224c906b2520c5438d
Log:
[FIXED JENKINS-8656] If branch spec is an empty string, due to an empty parameter, etc, use **.
jenkins-infra-bot commentedon Apr 13, 2011
Raw content of original comment:
Integrated in
plugins_git-plugin #118
[FIXED JENKINS-8656] If branch spec is an empty string, due to an empty parameter, etc, use **.
Andrew Bayer : dc575dce269020afe79bf0224c906b2520c5438d
Files :
jenkins-infra-bot commentedon Dec 2, 2025
[Original
blocksfrom Jira: JENKINS-40376]