Jenkins - how to build a specific branch

Question

This isn\'t as simple as just doing a parametrized build. I\'ve already got a specific build process that will build and deploy whenever any of these branches are pushed to

Answer 1

I can see many good answers to the question, but I still would like to share this method, by using Git parameter as follows:

When building the pipeline you will be asked to choose the branch:

After that through the groovy code you could specify the branch you want to clone:

git branch:BRANCH[7..-1], url: 'https://github.com/YourName/YourRepo.git' , credentialsId: 'github' 

Note that I'm using a slice from 7 to the last character to shrink "origin/" and get the branch name.

Also in case you configured a webhooks trigger it still work and it will take the default branch you specified(master in our case).