Sharing build artifacts between jobs in Hudson

Question

I\'m trying to set up our build process in hudson.

Job 1 will be a super fast (hopefully) continuous integration build job that will be built frequently.

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Answer 1

I agree that the current copy files/artifact/workspace between jobs manually is less than elegant.

Also, I found it wasteful space/timewise to have to archive huge tgz/zip files.. In our case, these files were huge (1.5G) and took a long time to pack/archive/fingerprint/unpack.

So I settled with a slightly optimised variant of the same:

• Job 1/2/3 all check out/clone the same source repository, but
• Job 1 only packs files that are actually build artifacts
  • with Git makes this easy and fast by git ls-files -oz, not sure about others SCMs
• use Copy Artifact plugin to transfer files
• This reduces the those files to a 1/3 size in our case -> speedup, less space wasted