Is there a way to keep Hudson / Jenkins configuration files in source control?

Question

I am new to Hudson / Jenkins and was wondering if there is a way to check in Hudson\'s configuration files to source control.

Ideally I want to be able to click some

Answer 1

To manually manage your configuration with Git, the following .gitignore file may be helpful.

# Miscellaneous Hudson litter
*.log
*.tmp
*.old
*.bak
*.jar
*.json

# Generated Hudson state
/.owner
/secret.key
/queue.xml
/fingerprints/
/shelvedProjects/
/updates/

# Tools that Hudson manages
/tools/

# Extracted plugins
/plugins/*/

# Job state
builds/
workspace/
lastStable
lastSuccessful
nextBuildNumber

See this GitHub Gist and this blog post for more details.