Jenkins delete jobs when branch deleted via branch-indexing

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ligi picture ligi · May 13, 2016 · Viewed 32.8k times · Source

Is there a way to tell Jenkins (2.2) to remove jobs for branches that were deleted? Currently my build-monitor fills up with branches as the jobs are not deleted. Is there a setting to trigger this behavior or should this be filed as a bug?

Answer

madhead picture madhead · May 13, 2016

Since you are using latest Jenkins version, consider switching your jobs to multibranch pipeline setup.

The Workflow Multibranch feature (provided by the workflow plugin) provides the following key abilities:

  • Automatic Workflow (job) creation in Jenkins per new branch in the repo (assuming webhooks are registered from GH to Jenkins).

  • Build specific to that child-branch and its unique scm change and build history.

  • Automatic job pruning/deletion for branches deleted from the repository, according to the settings.

  • Flexibility to individually configure branch properties, by overriding the parent properties, if required.

EDIT: check the 'Discard Old Items' settings for you pipeline. If you have non-zero 'Max # of old items' then, if your branch had less builds then this number, it will never be deleted! You can even see that in logs:

Will not remove US12345 as it is only #1 in the list
Will not remove US23456 as it is only #2 in the list
Will not remove US34567 as it is only #3 in the list

EDIT: You can also try your luck by adding additional behavior named "Prune stale remote-tracking branches" ("Behaviors" -> "Add" -> Select from dropdown).

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