Jenkins and Git sparse checkouts

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Pavel Chuchuva picture Pavel Chuchuva · May 29, 2012 · Viewed 62k times · Source

I have a large repository in Git. How do I create a job in Jenkins that checks out just one sub-folder from the project?

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uı6ʎɹnɯ ꞁəıuɐp picture uı6ʎɹnɯ ꞁəıuɐp · Jul 18, 2014

Jenkins Git Plugin support sparse checkouts since git-plugin 2.1.0 (April, 2014). You will need git >= 1.7.0 for this feature. It is under "Additional Behaviors" -> "Sparse Checkout paths."

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See: Jira issue JENKINS-21809

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