On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 12:39 AM, Jordan Soet <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm trying to set up Jenkins with the Github Organization Folder plugin but > I'm finding that it's checking out our entire repository twice, once in the > @script directory and once in the actual workspace directory. This is a > problem for us because our repository is quite large (>1GB - it contains a > number of large libraries and assets) and so this takes a while and uses up > a lot of extra space if we want to have it building all our different > branches. > > Looking online, I found a couple other people had similar problems: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39452030/jenkins-pipeline-is-it-possible-to-avoid-multiple-checkout > - this one suggests that using the Github Organization Folder plugin should > solve the problem, but that's what I'm using and it's not. > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/jenkinsci-users/y9cJbGX1C0k - this > one doesn't have an answer > https://botbot.me/freenode/jenkins/2016-08-31/?page=4 - here it's suggested > just to use the @script folder as your workspace folder, but apparently that > won't work if we want to have separate slaves. > > Anyway, particularly because of the first link where it suggests that using > the Github Organization Folder plugin should fix this, I'm wondering if I > just have something mis-configured? Should that plugin only be grabbing the > Jenkinsfile?
In my opinion, the overall problem here is trying to define the build process in the same place as what you're building. I have always felt that the Jenkinsfile and related scripting should be in a separate repository from what you're building. If you simply accept this approach, you will never have these problems again. Note that it still makes sense to have your Maven or Gradle build script in the same repository as what it's building. Developers need to be able to build a codebase out of the box, but the CI environment is different. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAA5t8VosXpN-LaKyPkXDX8vF4RSO21woF78ou5i%3D9JGv7gNQkA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
