[JIRA] [core] (JENKINS-17813) Jobs should have built in option to never clean workspace

Tue, 20 May 2014 06:15:03 -0700

Workspaces, where Jenkins stores temporary build data, are supposed to be managed by Jenkins as much as possible

Agreed

it's not an 'advanced project option' hidden by default by accident!

Can you point me to this "advanced project option"? I have been unable to locate any option that effectively disables this behavior, advanced or not. Perhaps it's too well hidden

Deletion of workspace contents is trivial

Possibly for small projects, or projects that are relatively well structured. Large projects, with code written decades ago with varying degrees of "cleanliness" are not so easily managed.

For your specific use case (which seems very unusual), it'd likely be best to not use a custom workspace, but just cd or xcopy out of that directory to accomplish your specific goals.

Doing so would require me to do all of my own artifact management, thus defeating the purpose of using Jenkins in the first place, but may be worth considering.

Maybe you're just using the wrong tool for the job: Something like Windows Scheduled Tasks might be better suited for what you're trying to accomplish

Interesting suggestion. If I could create a scheduled task that could trigger when changes were made to a source-code repository, I would consider that approach, but so far as I can tell this is not possible. The closest thing would be to have a task scheduled to run every minute, which I'm not sure would work so well on Windows.

...consider emailing the jenkinsci-users list asking for advice in your specific situation ... this is also the wrong place to discuss this...

For future reference, can you give me more details of where this 'jenkinsci-users' list is, or where the 'appropriate' venue for this discussion would be?
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