jenkins, what does fingerprint artifacts means?

jenkins fingerprint artifacts
Cher picture Cher · Jun 22, 2015 · Viewed 18k times · Source

My understanding

As far as I understood artifacts up to now, is that it was used to know if my project refers to an unfinished build task's artifacts.

Problem

I tried reading more (on jenkins site too) but I'm not sure I understand so easily what they do now. I know that when I promote a build, I can fingerprint artifacts. What does it mean then?

Answer

Slav picture Slav · Jun 22, 2015
  • Artifacts - anything produced during the build process.
  • Fingerprinting artifacts - recording the MD5 checksum of selected artifacts.

You can then use the MD5 checksum to track a particular artifact back to the build it came from.

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