Jenkins printing every remote branch on all builds [JENKINS-22794]

Jordan Sokolic

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Jul 25, 2019, 4:25:52 AM7/25/19

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We are experiencing an issue where Jenkins prints every remote branch in our repository to the console in every build. Since we have several thousand remote branches, this creates a lot of clutter in console logs.

Example:

10:29:19 > git rev-parse HEAD^{commit} # timeout=10

10:29:20 Seen branch in repository origin/32_.....

10:29:20 Seen branch in repository origin/337.....

10:29:20 Seen branch in repository origin/359.....

10:29:20 Seen branch in repository origin/4k_.....

10:29:20 Seen branch in repository origin/API.....

(and so on)

10:29:20 Seen 4,483 remote branches

10:29:20 > git show-ref --tags -d # timeout=10

10:29:20 JENKINS-19022: warning: possible memory leak due to Git plugin usage; see: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Remove+Git+Plugin+BuildsByBranch+BuildData

Per JENKINS-22794 we have tried setting -Dorg.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.GitClient.quietRemoteBranches=true in /etc/default/jenkins and confirmed that it is in fact loaded in the cmdline, but Jenkins insists on printing all remote branches.

From the source it's pretty clear that this should work, but it doesn't.

Jenkins version: 2.176.1

OS: Debian 9

Git client plugin version: 2.8.0

Thank you for any help.

Jordan

Geoffroy J

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Jul 26, 2019, 6:09:05 AM7/26/19

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Hi

have you set the option on both master and slaves?

BR

sanjay mishra

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Jul 27, 2019, 6:42:39 AM7/27/19

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Hi

i am facing 1 error when integrating my Git hub project in Jenkins

Failed to connect to repository : Error performing command: git.exe ls-remote -h https://github.com/sanjay3933/GITTest.git HEAD

Please help.

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Mark Waite

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Jul 27, 2019, 7:54:15 AM7/27/19

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Sanjay, your question is unrelated to the original question that Jordan asked. It is best to use a new thread rather than asking an unrelated question on an existing thread.

Jordan,

I set setting -Dorg.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.GitClient.quietRemoteBranches=true on the command line I used to start Jenkins in a docker container and have confirmed that it works as expected. It needs to be set as a Java option, not as a Jenkins option.

When it is set correctly, the value will be visible in the "System Properties" page that can be displayed from "Manage Jenkins".

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Jordan Sokolic

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Jul 28, 2019, 3:17:16 PM7/28/19

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Mark,

That seems to have done the trick. I did in fact have the system property set as a Jenkins argument. Moving it from JENKINS_ARGS to JAVA_ARGS in the environment file fixed the issue.

Thank you very much!

Jordan

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