Jenkins Git plugin detached HEAD

Question

I am new to Git and also to Jenkins. My problem is that I can\'t get the Jenkins Maven release plugin to work.

When I build a common Maven build with Jenkins, it wor

Answer 1

The Checkout/merge to local branch (optional) field is gone in the current (2.2.1) version of the Git plugin.

It has moved to Additional Behaviours → Check out to specific local branch:

Setting that value to master got me a checked out branch instead of a detached head.