Issue
I want to trigger jenkins build if a new tag is pushed to a remote repository. I have seen number of posts, but none seems to be working for me. My build is triggered successfully when I push a tag having new commits in it, but if I push a new tag on old commits it does not trigger the build.
I have configured it using git plugin in Jenkins and adding
Refscpec value as +refs/tags/*:refs/remotes/origin/tags/* and Branch specifier as */tags/*
Now if run:
git push origin master
git tag release-v1
git push origin release-v1
Build is triggered successfully for tag release-v1 But now if i do:
git push origin release-v2
Build is not triggered.
This means jenkins is always looking for commit ids, if there is a new commit id linked with the tag it will build the job. But i want the jenkins job to run in case I want to release already committed code for another feature with a new tag name.
Solution
I was facing the same issue and created a workaround for that. I decided to tag with suffix _uat, _prod etc. which helped me to achieve the goal. You will also require two Jenkins jobs for that. One will trigger another if condition matched.
Step 1
git tag -a release-v1_uat -m "Commit message"
git push origin release-v1_uat
Create two Jenkins Jobs
Job 1
Define repository
In Advance section's "Refspec" field put:
+refs/tags/_uat:refs/remotes/origin/tags/_uat
In "Branches to build" section:
**/tags/*_uat
BuildTriggers
CHECK-> GitHub hook trigger for GITScm polling
BUILDSTEP
ExecuteShell
TAG=$(git describe --tags --abbrev=0)
echo $TAG
echo $TAG > /tmp/tagname
result=echo $TAG | sed 's/.*\(....\)/\1/'
if [[ $result == _uat ]]; then echo yes; else (exit 1); fi
Click on Advance right below execute shell
Exit code to set build unstable (It will prevent the job to get triggered from any other Tag)
Put 1 in the Box
Post-build Actions
Check: Delete WorkSpace After Build
Job 2 (Your Main Job)
Go to "Build after other projects are built"
Mention you job 1 name in the box and select "Trigger only if build is stable"
Do not forget to get your tag value from the file by doing cat /tmp/tagname which generated in the job 1
There is always a room for improvement, please share if you have some better workaround/solution.
Answered By - ankit sharma
