How do I clone a job in Jenkins

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Jenkins has the Gerrit Plugin in place so that when we do check-ins to Gerrit  Jenkins performs a build and if it succeeds  then the modification in Gerrit is verified   If the build fails then it is not   My understanding is that this is accomplished through jobs set up in Jenkins   We have now created a new branch  git  and I guess I need to clone the existing jobs pointing to the other branch so that this same workflow occurs and builds are performed on every commit   Can somebody explain how I would clone these jobs  I don t seem to see a way to do it through the UI nor can I even see a way to list the jobs out through the UI

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All the answers here are super helpful but miss one very weird bug about Jenkins. After you have edited the new job configurations, sometimes if your zoom level is too high, you may not see the save or apply button option. The button is present on the page and hidden by your zoom level, you have to zoom out until you see the button at the bottom left of your page.

Strange, I know!

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if you want to copy in same Jenkins but in different subfolders  create new item -  use copy from  new Job will be cloned in same directory  Then use move option to move it in desired directory

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All above answers are good  But if you have created  folders  for your jobs  things are slightly different    Click on the folder under which you want to create a new job  Then click  New Item  on the left menu  Now your  new job  URL will look like this  assuming you are creating the new job under  my-folder      http   my-jenkins 8080 job my-folder newJob  Under Enter an item name  enter your desired new job name  Then use the Copy from text box at the bottom  Enter job path of he source job   E g  If your source job is under folder src-folder and name of the job is src-job  you will have to enter src-folder src-job in  Copy from  box   Hope it helps

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Jenkins 2 9   Jenkins   New Item   Enter an item name - E g   MY CLONE    Specify the source  Copy from  job   OK  When you start typing the name  the existing values will be found  Notice that this is case sensitive    Click on Save if you want to keep the default values  Now both jobs are available in the same location

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I was not able to copy Jenkins job from subfolder  copy from option did not show the suggestion which i was looking for Without using suggestion copying the job name didn t work   So if you want to create a job from outer folder  you need to first create the job in subfolder and then move it in different folder where you need to place it

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In my case  I had to copy over a job from one jenkins instance to another   So first I looked under the directory structure of the old Jenkins  the job directory name  also noted the config xml   and then under the directory structure of the new jenkins where I then created a directory with same name job and copied over the config xml under this newly created dir   Then under   Manage Jenkins   I hit  Reload Configuration from Disk   Thats it

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To copy an existing job  go to http   your-jenkins newJob and use the  Copy existing job  option   Enter the name of the existing job - Jenkins will verify whether it exists   The default tab on the front page of Jenkins should list all existing jobs  but maybe your predecessor deleted the tab   You can create a new tab listing all jobs from http   your-jenkins newView

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You can also use the Copy project link plugin     This will add a link on the left side panel of your project     Following screen will ask for the new Job name

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You could use Jobcopy Builder plugin

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Create a new Item and go to the last you ll find option to copy from existing  just write your current job name and you will have clone of that project to work with

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New Item Project Name   abc   Instead of Freestyle job  select Copy from job name of already existing jobs  If you are inside the folder that you want to copy out of the directory then use

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You can clone a job    Click on  New Item  link Give a new name for your job Select radio button  Copy existing Item  Give the job name that you want to clone Click  OK    Finally  you have your new job  which reflects all features of your cloned one

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