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Chris Beach
Chris Beach

Reputation: 4392

How do I stop Jenkins wiping a job's workspace (and thus private Maven repo)?

In Jenkins I'm using private Maven repositories (local to the workspace) to avoid Maven repo concurrency issues.

I'm finding that Jenkins deletes this repo folder ([jenkins home]/jobs/[job]/workspace/.repository) every build, which is a pain as this means Maven downloads its whole universe of jars for every build.

I have checked my SCM (Accurev) plugin and modified its code so that it doesn't purge the workspace when starting a build. However, something else in Jenkins is still deleting the workspace.

I'm not using the Workspace Cleanup plugin or any similar.

UPDATE: turns out I hadn't modified the Accurev plugin code properly. Re-visiting this was the solution

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2570

Answers (1)

Chris Beach
Chris Beach

Reputation: 4392

After much tinkering I discovered the Accurev plugin was in fact still deleting my workspace after my code change to it.

I fixed my code. Jenkins no longer clears my whole workspace.

So - in conclusion, it's generally your SCM plugin that's deleting files from your job workspace.

Upvotes: 1

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