[JIRA] (JENKINS-60097) Copying artifacts should offer to link them, if possible

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Jenkins / JENKINS-60097 Copying artifacts should offer to link them, if possible Issue Type: Improvement Assignee: Unassigned Components: copyartifact-plugin Created: 2019-11-08 00:47 Priority: Minor Reporter: Mikhail T I have several C++ projects, that all depend on Boost – which we build locally on the same Jenkins. The depending projects are configured to copy artifacts from the last successful build of Boost, which works. But the number of files installed by Boost (libraries and headers) is over 14K, which takes  multiple minutes to copy over even on the same server. I'd like to propose the option to symlink to the chosen build's artifacts from the workspace, if possible (if the build was on the same agent). This would save both time and space in many cases. (Note, that symbolic links are available on Windows too nowadays.) Add Comment

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Jenkins / JENKINS-60097 Copying artifacts should offer to link them, if possible

Change By: Mikhail T

I have several C++ projects, that all depend on Boost – which we build locally on the same Jenkins.

The depending projects are configured to copy artifacts from the last successful build of Boost, which works. But the number of files installed by Boost (libraries and headers) is over 14K, which takes  multiple minutes to copy over even on the same server. For example, not the four minutes it took in the most recent case – artifact copying is the next step after untarring in this build: {noformat} 19:08:14 Untarring QuantLib-1.16.tar.gz to ... 19:08:19 Untar completed. 19:12:10 Copied 14,120 artifacts from "Boost » Compile" build number 35 {noformat} I'd like to propose the option to _symlink_ to the chosen build's artifacts from the workspace, if possible (if the build was on the same agent). This would save both time and space in many cases.

(Note, that symbolic links are available on Windows too nowadays.)

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Mikhail T updated an issue

Jenkins / JENKINS-60097 Copying artifacts should offer to link them, if possible Change By: Mikhail T

I have several C++ projects, that all depend on Boost – which we build locally on the same Jenkins.

The depending projects are configured to copy artifacts from the last successful build of Boost, which works. But the number of files installed by Boost (libraries and headers) is over 14K, which takes  multiple minutes to copy over even on the same server. For example, not note the four minutes it took in the most recent case – artifact copying is the next step after untarring in this build: {noformat} ...

19:08:14 Untarring QuantLib-1.16.tar.gz to ... 19:08:19 Untar completed. 19:12:10 Copied 14,120 artifacts from "Boost » Compile" build number 35

... {noformat} I'd like to propose the an option to , instead of copying them, _symlink_ to the chosen build's artifacts from the workspace, if possible (if the build was on the same agent). This would save both time and space in many cases.

(Note, that symbolic links are available on Windows too nowadays.)

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Mikhail T assigned an issue to Alan Harder

Jenkins / JENKINS-60097 Copying artifacts should offer to link them, if possible

Change By: Mikhail T Assignee: Alan Harder

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Mikhail T commented on JENKINS-60097

Re: Copying artifacts should offer to link them, if possible Alan Harder, it seems like you are the maintainer of this plugin so I'm assigning the ticket to you. For some reason, the copyartifact-plugin component in Jira has no default assignee – who'd normally be the ticket's author/maintainer. As a result there are multiple open tickets against the plugin, that remain unassigned (and, consequently, unattended).

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Mikhail T edited a comment on JENKINS-60097

Re: Copying artifacts should offer to link them, if possible

[~mindless], it seems like you are the maintainer of this plugin so I'm assigning the ticket to you. For some reason, the {{copyartifact-plugin}} component in Jira has no default assignee – who'd normally be the ticket's author/maintainer . ..

As a result there are multiple open tickets against the plugin, that remain unassigned (and, consequently, unattended).

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