How to retrieve the git branch name that was built by Jenkins when using inverse branch selection strategy?

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harish picture harish · Feb 20, 2013 · Viewed 8.8k times · Source

We have one Jenkins job which builds every branch except master when there are new commits. This behavior can be configured via git plugin's 'choosing strategy:inverse' so that it listens to every branch except a specified branch.

This functions very nicely. But the problem is that GIT_BRANCH environment variable always refers to the excluded branch('origin/master' in our case). How to query the actual branch that was built by Jenkins?

Currently I am using a workaround that I grep it from generated changelog.xml. But it happens sometimes that changelog.xml is empty when Jenkins switches between different branches and I cannot find this info. What is the correct way of retrieving/querying from Jenkins the branch that was actually built?

Answer

Piotr Kuczynski picture Piotr Kuczynski · Jan 8, 2014

I successfully used this syntax:

GIT_BRANCH=`git rev-parse HEAD | git branch -a --contains | grep remotes | sed s/.*remotes.origin.//`

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