cron trigger limited to one branch in the Jenkinsfile

[Francois Marot]

Hello all,

I set up a cron trigger in my Jenkinsfile of the master branch, but now new branches are also built by this trigger at night. I would like to limit this behavior to my 'master' branch.

How would you do that ?

I know I can abort the build if I detect that that a cron triggered it but I dream of a simpler way.

pipeline {
    triggers {
        cron('H 5 * * 1,3,5')
    }

    ...

regards

François

[Francois Marot]

no one knows how to limit a cron to a branch in a Jenkinsfile ?

[Mark Waite]

On Monday, March 14, 2022 at 2:44:52 AM UTC-6  François wrote:

no one knows how to limit a cron to a branch in a Jenkinsfile ?

See https://github.com/jenkinsci/packaging/blob/5707f90ede196076fcd1308e517c90d52e0e9d99/Jenkinsfile#L6 for one technique to consider.  It makes the cron property conditional based on if the current branch is the primary branch in the repository.

[Francois Marot]

Thanks you mark,

sorry I hadn't seen your answer earlier. As another alternative, a colleague of mine found the "Parameterized Scheduler plugin" which is simple to use and does the job nicely as shown here: https://www.shellhacks.com/jenkins-schedule-build-periodically-parameters/

Have a good day !