2013/2/15 Prasanna Santhanam <[email protected]>: > Thanks - I understand it's not clone per build. Also I set the > topmost upstream job on a node to fetch changes from repo using git > and clone the same workspace for all other downstream projects on the > same node. This (I assume) prevents copies across master. But this is > convention which cannot be imposed for builds@. > > Am I right in assuming that copy of zip archive to master happens > regardless of all the clone related jobs being on the same node? This > is something I wasn't aware of. That seems bad. Except if you use only one single node for all your builds. But not sure it's a good idea for having fast builds. Do you really want that. BTW we talk here about a zip/tar archive of the workspace but it can generate a bit of network transfer. > > -- > Prasanna., > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 07:11:03PM +0530, Olivier Lamy wrote: >> Hi, >> The repo is not cloned fully for each build (except when a new node is used). >> There is a pull not a fully clone (except if you use option "Wipe out >> workspace before build"). >> So that must not be so slow ? >> My issue with this plugin is that it will generate some overload on >> master (this cloning feature doesn't transfer files directly between >> nodes). The workspace will be zipped on the node then transfered to >> master then to an other node (so that will generate extra traffic on >> our jenkins). >> >> >> 2013/2/15 Prasanna Santhanam <[email protected]>: >> > Greetings all, >> > >> > I work on the Apache CloudStack (incubating) project and would like to >> > request for adding a plugin to builds@ jenkins. The Clone Workspace >> > plugin would be useful to our project that has a ~500MB git repo. >> > Instead of having the repo downloaded each time a job is created it would >> > be good to use a clone of the workspace from the build jobs that are >> > upstream in the pipeline. >> > >> > Are there any downsides/concerns to enable this plugin for other >> > projects that I might be unaware of? I've been successfully using it >> > on our staging jenkins (jenkins.cloudstack.org) for sometime now. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > -- >> > Prasanna., >> >> >> >> -- >> Olivier Lamy >> Talend: http://coders.talend.com >> http://twitter.com/olamy | http://linkedin.com/in/olamy >
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