Active Git branch is “(no branch)” on hudson CI

Question

My Ant build.xml script starts with

GIT_BRANCH = ${env.GIT_BRANCH}
PWD = ${env.PWD         


        

Answer 1

RESOLVED

After seeing the comment by abayer in Hudson bug 6856, I took the following steps:

• Using the Hudson Plugin Manager, I updated my Hudson Git Plugin version 1.1) to get abayer's fix.
• Using the Hudson Job Configuration, I clicked the "Advanced" button under "Source Code Management" -> "Branches to Build". I then changed the "Local branch to use" to something to use for a name. It doesn't matter what.
• Then I clicked the "Save" button and started a build with "Build Now"

The build log shows

[workspace] $ git.exe checkout -b ChangeTester d6caef27759495c5714923c1ddf19551a70d6083

Instead of

[workspace] $ git.exe checkout -f d6caef27759495c5714923c1ddf19551a70d6083

Which means that I am not in a 'detached head' state and can therefore do commits, create tags, and push.

I can use 'git rev-parse HEAD' to get the commit hash and find that in the output of 'git show-ref' to find the real name of the branch if I need it.

I'm now able to push successful build tags to my git repo.