Jenkins Git Plugin How to build specific tag

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I am having issues getting Jenkins to build a specified tag  The tag is part of a parametrized build  but I do not know how to pass this through to the git plugin to just build that tag  This has been taking 3 hours of my day and I have conceded defeat to the masters at stack overflow

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You can build even a tag type  for example 1 2 3-alpha43  using wildcards   Refspec   refs tags   refs remotes origin tags    Branch specifier  origin tags 1 2 3-alpha   You can also tick  Build when a change is pushed to GitHub  to trigger the push  but you have to add  create  action to the webhook

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I was able to get Jenkins to build a tag by setting the Refspec and Branch Specifier as detailed in this blog post   I also had to set the Repository Name  to  origin  in my case  so that I could reference it in the Refspec  otherwise it would apparently use a randomly generated name

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None of these answers were sufficient for me  using Jenkins CI v 1 555  Git Client plugin v 1 6 4  and Git plugin 2 0 4   I wanted a job to build for one Git repository for one specific  fixed  i e   non-parameterized  tag  I had to cobble together a solution from the various answers plus the  build a Git tag  blog post cited by Thilo    Make sure you push your tag to the remote repository with git push --tags In the  Git Repository  section of your job  under the  Source Code Management  heading  click  Advanced   In the field for Refspec  add the following text   refs tags   refs remotes origin tags   Under  Branches to build    Branch specifier   put   tags  lt TAG TO BUILD gt   replacing  lt TAG TO BUILD gt  with your actual tag name     Adding the Refspec for me turned out to be critical  Although it seemed the git repositories were fetching all the remote information by default when I left it blank  the Git plugin would nevertheless completely fail to find my tag  Only when I explicitly specified  get the remote tags  in the Refspec field was the Git plugin able to identify and build from my tag   Update 2014-5-7  Unfortunately  this solution does come with an undesirable side-effect for Jenkins CI  v 1 555  and the Git repository push notification mechanism    la Stash Webhook to Jenkins  any time any branch on the repository is updated in a push  the tag build jobs will also fire again  This leads to a lot of unnecessary re-builds of the same tag jobs over and over again  I have tried configuring the jobs both with and without the  Force polling using workspace  option  and it seemed to have no effect  The only way I could prevent Jenkins from making the unnecessary builds for the tag jobs is to clear the Refspec field  i e   delete the  refs tags   refs remotes origin tags      If anyone finds a more elegant solution  please edit this answer with an update  I suspect  for example  that maybe this wouldn t happen if the refspec specifically was  refs tags  lt TAG TO BUILD gt  refs remotes origin tags  lt TAG TO BUILD gt  rather than the asterisk catch-all  For now  however  this solution is working for us  we just remove the extra Refspec after the job succeeds

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I did something like this and it worked    Source Code Management   Git         Repositories        Advance  Name  ref Refspec    refs tags   refs remotes origin tags      Branches to build    Branch Specifier  blank for  any     v0 9 5 2     Jenkins log confirmed that it was getting the source from the tag   Checking out Revision 0b4d6e810546663e931cccb45640583b596c24b9  v0 9 5 2

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If you are using Jenkins pipelines and want to checkout a specific tag  eg  a TAG parameter of your build   here is what you can do   stage  Checkout       steps       checkout scm    class   GitSCM   userRemoteConfigs    url   YOUR GIT REPO URL git   credentialsId   YOUR GIT CREDENTIALS ID      branches    name   refs tags   TAG       poll  false

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I was able to do that by using the  branches to build  parameter   Branch Specifier  blank for default   tags  tag-name    Replace  tag-name  by the name of your tag

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Can t you tell Jenkins to build from a Ref name  If so then it s  refs tags tag-name   From all the questions I see about Jenkins and Hudson  I d suggest switching to TeamCity  I haven t had to edit any configuration files to get TeamCity to work

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In a latest Jenkins  1 639 and above  you can    just specify name of tag in a field  Branches to build   in a parametrized build you can use parameter as variable in a same field  Branches to build  i e    Branch to build   you can install Git Parameter Plugin which will provide to you functionality by listing of all available branches and tags

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Adding my two cents here since I have not seen an answer that uses the option  Build with parameters  in Jenkins   Here I am using Jenkins CI browser console for project starwars api and I was able to build directly with  Build with parameters  with value  refs tags tag-name    choose the  build with parameters  option  add value in the box as  refs tags tag 142   tag name   tag 142 for my example    build with ref tag name

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What I did in the end was    created a new branch jenkins-target  and got jenkins to track that merge from whichever branch or tag I want to build onto the jenkins-target once the build was working  tests passing etc  just simply create a tag from the jenkins-target branch   I m not sure if this will work for everyone  my project was quite small  not too many tags and stuff  but it s dead easy to do  dont have to mess around with refspecs and parameters and stuff  -

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I set the Advanced- gt Refspec field to refs tags  your tag name   This seems simpler than the various other suggestions for Refspec  but it worked just fine for me  UPDATE 23 7 2014 - Actually  after further testing  it turns out this didn t work as expected  It appears that the HEAD version was still being checked out  Please undo this as the accepted answer  I ended up getting a working solution by following the post from gotgenes in this thread  30th March   The issue mentioned in that post of unnecessary triggering of builds was not an issue for me  as my job is triggered from an upstream job  not from polling SCM  UPDATE APR-2018 - Note in the comments that this does work for one person  and agrees with Jenkins documentation

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