[JIRA] (JENKINS-13774) Provide option for cloning all branches with Mercurial SCM

[jgl...@cloudbees.com (JIRA)]

jglick commented on JENKINS-13774 Provide option for cloning all branches with Mercurial SCM Dave's reported case sounds a lot like the caching feature built in to the plugin, which would not require a special job or Copy Artifact - you just configure your Hg installation to use caching, and then any job using a given public repo location will automatically share the cache (and slaves do not need to make the remote connection). If you are trying to do something more subtle, such as archiving particular snapshots of the repository, then I guess a freeform build step with hg clone -U would be suitable, but I am not sure what trigger to use; the Mercurial plugin is designed to maintain a checkout of a particular branch and poll for changes in it, which is a quite different use case. You would really want a custom build trigger which just looked for activity of any kind in a given repo. Henrik's case is different and probably suited to Multiple SCMs - place a checkout of each named branch in its own subdirectory of the workspace. Each branch will be polled for changes. That ought to work fine with the current Mercurial plugin unless I am missing something.

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