Jenkins Workflow Checkout Accessing BRANCH_NAME and GIT_COMMIT

Question

I cannot seem to extract $GIT_COMMIT and $BRANCH_NAME from a Jenkins Workflow Checkout step.

I would like to be able to send this information through to my Gradle sc

Answer 1

If you want to access the BRANCH_NAME from Jenkins environment variable as a shell script, use the below snippet.

sh 'echo Branch Name: $BRANCH_NAME'

The response should be as below:

Branch Name: the_checkedout_branch