New plugin for running build steps before SCM checkout

[cjo]

Hi all,

I have looked through all of the existing plugins and could not find
one that would let me run a build step before the SCM does its check,
so noticing that the buildwrapper has a preCheckout method, I have
created a simple plugin to allow any build steps to run at this point.

I hope this will be of use to other people.

Can I request forking of the plugin from https://github.com/cjo9900/preSCMbuildstep-plugin
along with a rename to pre-scm-buildstep-plugin as i think it more in-
line with the rest of the plugin naming scheme.

I have created a sample wiki page for the plugin at
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/~cjo9900/pre-scm-buildstep-plugin
to cover the main usage points.

Any comments are more than welcome,

My Jenkins and github user names are both cjo9900

Thanks

[Ullrich Hafner]

Done: https://github.com/jenkinsci/pre-scm-buildstep-plugin

Welcome aboard!

Ulli

[Grégory Boissinot]

The EnvInject plugin (https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/EnvInject+Plugin) provides also this feature.

However, in a simpler way that the pre-buildstep-scm plugin.

[cjo]

I can see the fork but I don't seem to have commit access, so cannot
do the last modifications before a release.

I am already a member of the jenkinsci organization, and have commit
access to other plugins.
so can you check everything is setup correctly.

I think it needs to be added to the Everybody group.


Thanks