General information

Under https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Git+Parameter+Plugin you find information about

• Plug-Info (useage)
• Known Limitations/Bugs

Here you find information relevant for developer for this plugin.

• Visit https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Hosting+Plugins for information about developing Jenkins-Plugins

• You may checkout/clone this project and build it by simply calling mvn clean install in the root of the checkout. Test your changes by going to your Jenkins-CI site and import the generated target/git-parameter.hpi by going to your base URL + jenkins/pluginManager/advanced. There you find an option to upload a plugin.

• The Jenkins-CI of this plugin can be seen at DEV@cloud. The status is

ChangeLog

01/16/2015 Version 0.4.0

• Possibility to select branch, tag or branch (Alban Dericbourg)
• Keep complex logics in jelly as less as possible (Yestin Sun)
• support folders (Nicolas De Loof)
• Minimized pom.xml as suggested by Jesse Glick
• Removed LICENSE.txt as suggested by Jesse Glick

14/05/14 Version 0.3.2 (Code is same 0.3, needed because mvn release:prepare release:perform did not work)
14/05/14 Version 0.3.1 (Code is same 0.3, needed because mvn release:prepare release:perform did not work)
09/05/14 Version 0.3

• Runs a fetch each time the user enters the “Build with parameter”.
• With an empty workspace the tags are calculated after we made a checkout. This may take a long time.
• Added MIT-LICENSE.txt to use the same license as Jenkins-CI.
• Added Contributors.textile
• Display month not minutes in date. Add HH.mm. Display only first 8 chars of SHA1 (Niklaus Giger)
• Merging SortMode from graeme-hill
• Add backup pluginRepository (Gabor Liptak)
• Use GitTool to query configured location of the git executable (gliptak)
• Upgrade to git 2.2.0. (christ66)
• Run clone when fetch fails on workspace empty (Gabor Liptak)
• Build against latest stable Jenkins-CI version 1.554.1
• New maintainer/developer

02/21/12 Version 0.2

• Corrected error – plugin wasn’t showing anything after change of main Git Plugin
• Corrected major disfunctionality – plugin now it showing revisions only from correct job/project.
• Adding support for choosing branch from which revisions/tags are returned

11/01/11 Version 0.1

• Initial Release

TODO:

• Add a new method listRemoteTags(URL) to git-client-plugin to use. Will speed up listing tags and avoids cloning/fetching the content.

• Fix the pending issues from
  • Even though the GIT SCM module has the ability to provide “credentials” (SSH key) for the repository, the git-parameter plugin doesn’t seem to use them. Issue lukanus

• Allow translations by converting all html stuff to jelly
• Add explanation when configuring the sort mode
• Allow regular expressions when sorting.

• Better testing. How to we test the configuration dialog? How do we test whether correct tags are listed when a user triggers a build?

Development history:

This plugin was offered to the community by lukanus (Łukasz Miłkowski <lukanus@uaznia.net>) end of 2011. He was active till February 2012.

In May 2014 ngiger (Niklaus Giger niklaus.giger) decided to maintain this plugin and bring in the various improvements made by others.