CDNA-Technologies / git-parameter-plugin

Jenkins/Hudson plugin for chosing Revision / Tag before build

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

Pull Request Policy

If you want add some change for this plugin, first add the issue in jenkins JIRA.
Describe there why you need change the plugin.
JIRA: https://issues.jenkins-ci.org
Component: git-parameter-plugin

ChangeLog

02/18/2019 Version 0.9.10

• PR #78: changed select element’s id following previous fix in ae9de22

02/15/2019 Version 0.9.9

• JENKINS-55769: Tag match filter shows more entries than direct command (git tag -l “$tagFilter”)
• JENKINS-55770: Intrusive and misleading warning text from the parameter selection display
• JENKINS-54359: Change error handling

10/09/2018 Version 0.9.6

• JENKINS-53911: Duplicate entries in list, if git repo is checked out twice.
• JENKINS-52533: Display commit message on the build action
• JENKINS-45925: Show git commit message when building with parameter “revision”

09/17/2018 Version 0.9.5

• JENKINS-51041, JENKINS-50510, JENKINS-45419: Fixed use repository option

08/16/2018 Version 0.9.4

• JENKINS-52273: Support git-parameter-plugin in declarative pipeline
• JENKINS-52132: Description with HTML support

06/20/2018 Version 0.9.3

• JENKINS-51521: Git parameter does not show branch list in case deleteDir() is present in pipeline
• JENKINS-51476: Git parameter plugin is not retrieving revision number

04/16/2017 Version 0.9.2

• JENKINS-49727: Add optional parameter to specify the number of items the list will display
• JENKINS-50776: Default selected item doesn’t always honor exactly Default Value

02/18/2017 Version 0.9.1

• JENKINS-45419: ‘Use Repository’ setting does not find other remote urls if multiple repos are added to job
• PR #55: Add complete French support

11/02/2017 Version 0.9.0

• JENKINS-47110: Retrieving Git references do not work with variable in Repository URL
• JENKINS-47078: IndexOutOfBoundsException for pipeline job
• JENKINS-39530: Add support to Pipeline projects
• PR #54: Help improvement: complete English translation, and reorder items

09/04/2017 Version 0.8.1

• JENKINS-46216: Null Pointer exception when no default parameter provided
• JENKINS-45577: [Git Parameter Plugin] Parameter does not support the definition from CLI
• JENKINS-46624: fix remote name
• JENKINS-46185: Set browser focus to filter after the QuickFilter has been filled
• JENKINS-46038: Extend list of supported type with pull request
• JENKINS-26799: Multiple SCMs plugin support part 3 (Work fine when selected revisions)
• JENKINS-42313: Default Value not honoured

06/02/2017 Version 0.8.0

• JENKINS-26799: Multiple SCMs plugin support part 2
• JENKINS-40523: Include Jenkins Project Name in Log message
• JENKINS-40232: Git Parameter Plugin doesn’t need to clone

01/23/2017 Version 0.7.2

• JENKINS-41091: git-parameter:0.7.1 breaks the multi-line parameters in rebuild

11/27/2016 Version 0.7.1

• JENKINS-39366: Add support for a rebuild-plugin
• JENKINS-26799: Multiple SCMs plugin support

09/10/2016 Version 0.7.0

• JENKINS-37555: Better support for internationalization
• JENKINS-37595: Add support for polish localization
• JENKINS-37370: Retrieving Git references do not work with variable in “Repository URL”
• JENKINS-37953: Add support to ProxySCM
• JENKINS-37738: Update dependency in plugin and cleanup in pom
• JENKINS-34876: Git Parameters not working for Pipeline projects and Jenkinsfile from SCM

08/06/2016 Version 0.6.2

• JENKINS-36833: Race Condition Populating Multiple Tag Parameters
• JENKINS-36934: No return value passed to the url
• JENKINS-31939: The top value is better to be chosen by default of to have such option (part 3)

07/19/2016 Version 0.6.1

• JENKINS-31939: The top value is better to be chosen by default of to have such option (part 2)

07/06/2016 Version 0.6.0

• JENKINS-36104: Add Repo SCM support (Derron Hu)
• JENKINS-16290: git parameter plugin doesn’t support Jenkins slave setup with git repos checked out only on slaves
• JENKINS-35363: Git parameter filter doesn’t work

05/03/2016 Version 0.5.1

• JENKINS-34425: Git parameter plugin skips one build number while populating tags
• JENKINS-34544: NPE After update to 0.5.0
• JENKINS-34574: After cleaned workspace doesn’t show branches

04/03/2016 Version 0.5.0

1. User interface

• JENKINS-27435: Quick branch filter (Thank Bruno P. Kinoshita for inspiration)
• JENKINS-33963: Branch filter does not save the value (part of the work Joe Hansche)

2. Refactor/fix/feature

• JENKINS-33361: Long release number in branch, tag or revision name
• JENKINS-33084: Git Parameter plugin should prune stale remote branches (@darashenka)
• JENKINS-31939: The top value is better to be chosed by default of to have such option
• JENKINS-33831: Revision Parameter Type: ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
• JENKINS-33912: Refactoring Test Case

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 <[e-mail]>) 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.

March 2016 klimas7 (Boguslaw Klimas) he began to the care and maintenance of the plugin.. We will see … :)