Jenkins Integration - How to update to a certain changeset

[KrisK]

The jenkins plastic plugin states that:

" You can setup not only branches (which is the normal case), but labels as well as changesets in the selector. "

... but it doesnt state how to do that. Tried different approaches but none did work.

Please help.

Thanks Kris

[calbzam]

Hi, sorry it's not clear in the documentation. You can copy the selector from any of your workspaces. Let me show you some examples:

repository "default@localhost:8087"
  path "/"
    label "v1.0" 

repository "default@localhost:8087"
  path "/"
    smartbranch "/main" changeset "11"  

Regards,

Carlos.
     

[KrisK]

Thanks for the quick answer!

Why do I still need to define the "smartbranch"? The changeset may not be on particulary branch.

[calbzam]

This is the workspace selector format. You can open a console in any if your workspaces and run the following command:

cm showselector --help

Regards,

Carlos.

[Guest]

We're having the same issue. We're using Jenkins to pull the jenkinsfile from the repository using the following selector, where "source" is a Jenkins parameter:

repository "default@localhost:8087"
  path "/"
    smartbranch "${source}"

It works fine as long as "source" is a branch. It does not work for labels nor changesets, because the syntax of the selector would be different. It would be useful to us if there was a way to specify the selector like "cm switchtobranch", which supports branch names, labels, and changesets at the same time. For example, it would solve our problem if smartbranch accepted both "br:/main/task001" and "cs:1234" as valid arguments.