Do multibranch jobs lead to code duplication?

[Martin Schmude]

Dear all,

if I understand multibranch jobs right, then a Jenkinsfile in branch "master" will be replicated into all other branches drawn from "master".

It has to be like that because the Jenkinsfile is the "marker" that tells Jenkins to build a branch, and how to do that. Branches without a Jenkinsfile will not be built.

This will often result in code duplication, with all the well-known issues.

If a small change has to be made to the Jenkinsfile, it has to be applied to all branches.

How do you handle that issue? Is there a recommended practice?

[jeremy mordkoff]

How do you normally handle branches and merging? I use the same tools and branching and merging rules as the rest of the team, i.e. development and QA. 

In our case, the teams are required to merge from master to their project branches on a regular basis, so they will eventually get my changes that I make in master.

[Nick Stolwijk]

We use the Jenkins pipeline as a library so our Jenkinsfile is as short as:

@Library('Jenkins-pipeline@master')_
def pipelineParams = [
    agent: 'Linux',
    slackChannel: 'build-dev'
]
mavenJavaPipeline pipelineParams

And the real pipeline code is in a separate repository. If you want to change the pipeline you can use a project and change the branch of the pipeline (master -> featurebranch) to test the changes in the library before merging the pipeline changes back to master (effectively adjusting all the builds that use the pipeline).

With regards,

Nick Stolwijk

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[Dirk Heinrichs]

Am Dienstag, den 21.07.2020, 14:37 -0700 schrieb 'Martin Schmude' via Jenkins Users:

If a small change has to be made to the Jenkinsfile, it has to be applied to all branches.

That's true for all code changes which are needed in multiple branches, isn't it? That's called back-/forward porting. It allows your Jenkins job to evolve together with your main code.

HTH...

Dirk

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