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Asked: 2026-05-23T10:04:19+00:00

When building from git on master jenkins fetches and uses origin/master. When building from

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When building from git on master jenkins fetches and uses origin/master. When building from git on a branch jenkins fetches and users mybranch not origin/mybranch and isn’t picking up changes.

I switched the branch specifier to use origin/mybranch and it seems to work. Is the the standard way to handle things or am I missing a more obvious way of doing this? I don’t want to add unecessary complexity.

Please let me know if jenkins should use origin/branchname instead of branchname for its Branches-To-Build field.

Thanks

Peter

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  1. Editorial Team

    Check your current .git/config, and you will see that your “origin” and how master relates to origin is already specified. No other branches will be specified, so the plugin can’t construct a url. To add further branches…

    [remote "origin"]
        url = ssh://myserv/srv/git/proj.git
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
[branch "master"]
        remote = origin
        merge = refs/heads/master
[branch "im_a_branch"]
        remote = origin
        merge = refs/heads/im_a_branch_remote_branch_name

    This would enable you to just put in the branch name in the branches to build field in Jenkins. That’s probably overkill, and extra maintenance. Just put in the origin/branchname.

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