Pull changes when a tag is created

[jayarama...@gmail.com]

Hello,

I wanted to trigger a Jenkins build when a new tag is created but I'm not having any luck with it. 

Just to be sure I mentioned it, I don't have access to modify the repo since it's a public repo.

The following configuration is what I used in the "Git" Source Code Management
Repo URL: https://github.com/apache/tomcat.git

Refspec: +refs/tags/8.5.*:refs/remotes/origin/tags/8.5.*

Branch Specifier: **/tags/**

Build Trigger: Poll SCM (with no schedule)

Is there something I'm doing wrong?

I can't do WebHooks which is unfortunate I think

Any insights would be appreciated. 

Thanks

[Mark Waite]

If you're running the default command line git version on CentOS 7, it does not accept partial globs in the refspec.  The command line git documentation for refspec says:

Since Git 2.6.0 you can use partial globs in the pattern to match multiple branches, so this works:

fetch = +refs/heads/qa*:refs/remotes/origin/qa*

If you're running a command line git version before 2.6.0, your partial glob won't work.

[jayarama...@gmail.com]

Thanks Mark, we have compiled 2.33.0 from source so partial should work but Jenkins doesn't pull repo when there's a tag created. 

[Björn Pedersen]

On Wednesday, September 22, 2021 at 11:50:30 AM UTC-8 jayarama...@gmail.com wrote:

Hello,

I wanted to trigger a Jenkins build when a new tag is created but I'm not having any luck with it. 

Just to be sure I mentioned it, I don't have access to modify the repo since it's a public repo.

The following configuration is what I used in the "Git" Source Code Management
Repo URL: https://github.com/apache/tomcat.git

Refspec: +refs/tags/8.5.*:refs/remotes/origin/tags/8.5.*

Branch Specifier: **/tags/**

Build Trigger: Poll SCM (with no schedule)

Is there something I'm doing wrong?

I can't do WebHooks which is unfortunate I thin

If you can't use webhooks than you need a schedule ( otherwise the polling will never run).

Björn