Howto change the output/workspace of a git clone job?

[Gorgonz ola]

env: opensuse leap 15

well, I'm completely new in using jenkins. In fact I just did my first project, that only clones a specific git branch and thats it.

This works fine and the files are copied to /var/lib/jenkins/workspace.

But it is a website project, where I prefer /srv/www/htdocs/.

Where do I have to set this alternative workspace?

Any suggestions?

[Mark Waite]

Jenkins generally prefers that workspaces are not hard-coded locations on specific machines.  Setting a workspace as a hard-coded location causes problems like:

• Only one build can run at a time (throughput limit)
• Only one machine can run the build (performance limit)
• Source repository is copied into the workspace (undesirable for websites since it risks making your site history available through your web server accidentally)
• Accidental tool and file system dependencies are not detected because the same machine and dir is used for every build

Rather than using /srv/www/htdocs as a Jenkins workspace, you should create a "deploy step" in your build process that copies from a working directory (assigned by Jenkins automatically) to /srv/www/htdocs after all the build and verification steps are complete.

Mark Waite

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[Gorgonz ola]

@Mark: thx a lot for Your helpful considerations. I see the point now and agree, that another deploy step is the better choice. Even more, since I have better control then - in case the build fails ;-)