Jenkins Pipeline Wipe Out Workspace

Question

We are running Jenkins 2.x and love the new Pipeline plugin. However, with so many branches in a repository, disk space fills up quickly.

Is there any plugin that

Answer 1

Using the 'WipeWorkspace' extension seems to work as well. It requires the longer form:

checkout([
   $class: 'GitSCM',
   branches: scm.branches,
   extensions: scm.extensions + [[$class: 'WipeWorkspace']],
   userRemoteConfigs: scm.userRemoteConfigs
])

More details here: https://support.cloudbees.com/hc/en-us/articles/226122247-How-to-Customize-Checkout-for-Pipeline-Multibranch-

Available GitSCM extensions here: https://github.com/jenkinsci/git-plugin/tree/master/src/main/java/hudson/plugins/git/extensions/impl