Dynamically Fill Jenkins Choice Parameter With Git Branches In a Specified Repo

Question

I have a parameterized Jenkins job which requires the input of a specific Git branch in a specific Git repo. Currently this parameter is a string parameter.

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Answer 1

expanding on @malenkiy_scot's answer. I created a new jenkins job to build up the file that is used by Extended Choice Plugin.

you can do the following (I did it as execute shell steps in jenkins, but you could do it in a script):

git ls-remote git@github.com:my/repo.git |grep refs/heads/* >tmp.txt
sed -e 's/.*refs\/heads\///' tmp.txt > tmp2.txt
tr '\n' ',' < tmp2.txt > tmp3.txt
sed '1i\branches=' tmp3.txt > tmp4.txt
tr -d '\n'  < tmp4.txt > branches.txt

I then use the Artifact deployer plugin to push that file to a shared location, which is in a web url, then just use 'http://localhost/branches.txt' in the Extended Choice plugin as the url. works like a charm.