If you're willing to experiment, a change was recently merged to the git-client-plugin which prints a message giving the path to the reference repo. You can download the unreleased build from https://ci.jenkins.io/blue/organizations/jenkins/Plugins%2Fgit-client-plugin/detail/master/148/artifacts . The artifact you need is git-client-plugin.hpi Upload it to your Jenkins instance and restart Jenkins, and reference repositories will be noted in the console log.
Mark Waite On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 11:28 AM Luke Lussenden <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not seeing any clear indication that the reference repository I am > providing is being utilized. I don't see the "--reference" argument in any > of the Git commands that are printed to the console and I am not seeing the > cache boost I would expect. > > I want to use a reference repository because occasionally our checkouts > are getting throttled to kb/sec speeds and timing out. From what I can > see, it still looks like everything is copied from the remote repository. > > I have the reference directory withing the workspace as an area to be > preserved between builds > > // cache location > dir("reference"){ > git: url: ssh://remote.location.com/repo.git, credentialsId: xyz > } > > // build location, wiped clean each build > dir("build_space"){ > deleteDir() > checkout([$class: 'GitSCM', > branches: [[name: 'MyCurrentBranch']], > doGenerateSubmoduleConfigurations: false, > extensions: [ > [$class: 'CloneOption', > reference: "${WORKSPACE}/reference" > ] > ], > submoduleCfg: [], > userRemoteConfigs: [[ credentialsId: 'xyz', url: 'ssh:// > remote.location.com/repo.git' ]] > ]) > } > > The only indication at all that what I'm passing in as a reference is > being used is if I point the reference to an existing directory that does > not contain a git repo - then I will get a warning in the console output. > > Any input - including alternate strategies for caching - would be > appreciated. > > Thanks! > > > -- > 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/c488b9a8-7a9e-4575-b139-4f5f7ba894dd%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/c488b9a8-7a9e-4575-b139-4f5f7ba894dd%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CAO49JtFkaL8HQVh1FWecygsHBXSQFYNkdzoMCUL%3DR0G%2BTRdeoQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
