Plugin Information
View Git on the plugin site for more information.

Older versions of this plugin may not be safe to use. Please review the following warnings before using an older version:

This plugin allows use of Git as a build SCM, including repository browsers for several providers. A recent Git runtime is required (1.7.9 minimum, 1.8.x recommended). Interaction with the Git runtime is performed by the use of the Git Client Plugin, which is only tested on official git client. Use exotic installations at your own risk.

Configuration

Global Settings

In the Configure System page, the Git Plugin provides the following options

Global Config user.name Value: if provided git config user.name <value> is called before builds. This can be overridden by individual projects.
Global Config user.email Value: if provided git config user.email <value> is called before builds. This can be overridden by individual projects.
Create new accounts base on author/committer's email: if checked, upon parsing of git change logs, new user accounts are created on demand for the identified committers / authors in the internal Jenkins database. The e-mail address is used as the id of the account.

Pipeline Scripts

Please note that these config variables are not passed through to Pipeline jobs JENKINS-43563 - Getting issue details... STATUS So this configuration will need to be added in the job if you wish to make git commits

Project Configuration

At the project level the Git Plugin is configured by selecting the Git option at the Source Code Management section.

The main section is Repositories where several can be configured. The information to provide include:

The Repository URL, which is mandatory. The URL uses the same syntax as the git clone command. This can be a URL or a local file path. Note that for super-projects (repositories with submodules), only a local file path or a complete URL is valid.
- The following are examples of valid git URLs.
  - ssh://git@github.com/org-name/project-name.git
  - git@github.com:org-name/project.git (short notation for ssh protocol)
  - ssh://user@other.host.com/~/repos/R.git (to access the {repos/R.git repository in the user's home directory)
  - https://github.com/github/git.git
  - git://github.com/org-name/project.git
- If the repository is a super-project, the location from which to clone submodules is dependent on whether the repository is bare or non-bare (i.e. has a working directory).
  - If the super-project is bare, the location of the submodules will be taken from .gitmodules.
  - If the super-project is not bare, it is assumed that the repository has each of its submodules cloned and checked out appropriately. Thus, the submodules will be taken directly from a path like ${SUPER_PROJECT_URL}/${SUBMODULE}, rather than relying on information from .gitmodules.
- For a local URL/path to a super-project, git rev-parse --is-bare-repository is used to detect whether the super-project is bare or not.
- For a remote URL to a super-project, the ending of the URL determines whether a bare or non-bare repository is assumed:
  - If the remote URL ends with /.git, a non-bare repository is assumed.
  - If the remote URL does NOT end with /.git, a bare repository is assumed.
Credentials: Credentials to use to connect to the repository (unless anonymous access is allowed), using the Jenkins Credentials Management functionality. The type of credentials used depends on the underlying protocol. For SSH connections only private key authentication is supported.

The next section is Branches to Build in which several branch specifiers can be provided. For each of these specs, leaving it blank means that all branches will be examined for changes and built. The safest way is to use the refs/heads/<branchName> syntax. This way the expected branch is unambiguous. See the online help for more options.

A Repository Browser can also be configured, which adds links in "changes" views within Jenkins to an external system for browsing the details of those changes. The "Auto" selection attempts to infer the repository browser from other jobs, if supported by the SCM and a job with matching SCM details can be found, though it can also be selected manually.

Finally, the Git Plugin is extensible and the plugin itself as well as external plugins can provide Additional Behaviours to tweak the SCM configuration inside each particular project. Please refer to the online help of each of the additional options for further information.

Bugs

Check the open issues carefully to see if the issue has already been reported
Create an issue if needed, and make sure to choose the git-plugin sub-component. Make sure to mention the plugin version number in the issue description.

Note: Source code can be found at https://github.com/jenkinsci/git-plugin.

Gotchas

If you are seeing output indicating Git could not clone, something like the output below, go to to the Jenkins configuration settings (not the project settings, the global ones) and change the Git path to a fully qualified path (eg. not "git" but "/usr/bin/git" or wherever your Git binary is installed). You should also verify that the permissions are correct if you are doing a file system based clone.

Started by user anonymous
Checkout:workspace / C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\.hudson\jobs\watir\workspace - hudson.remoting.LocalChannel@1a1f370
Last Build : #4
Checkout:workspace / C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\.hudson\jobs\watir\workspace - hudson.remoting.LocalChannel@1a1f370
Cloning the remote Git repository
Cloning repository origin
$ git clone -o origin git://github.com/bret/watir.git "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\.hudson\jobs\watir\workspace"
Trying next repository
ERROR: Could not clone from a repository
FATAL: Could not clone
hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Could not clone
    at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM$2.invoke(GitSCM.java:400)
    at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM$2.invoke(GitSCM.java:358)
    at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:676)
    at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:660)
    at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.checkout(GitSCM.java:358)
    at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:833)
    at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.checkout(AbstractBuild.java:314)
    at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.run(AbstractBuild.java:266)
    at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:948)
    at hudson.model.Build.run(Build.java:112)
    at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:93)
    at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:118)

You may need to tell Git the user Jenkins is running as. Such user is probably tomcat6, but you can easily find out by creating an empty job and entering "whoami" in an "execute shell" build step, then running the job and looking at the console output for the username. Once you have the name, on a Linux/Unix system switch to that user by using either of the following, which works even if the user doesn't have shell access.
```
$ su - -s /bin/bash tomcat6
$ sudo su - -s /bin/bash tomcat6
```
Now cd to the directory containing the clone Jenkins created, and use git config user.name and git config user.email to set the values.
```
$ cd /srv/jenkins/jobs/project/workspace
$ git config user.email "some@email.com"
$ git config user.name "jenkins"
```
Don't setup a credential helper, or if one is defined, delete that section from the ~/.gitconfig file. It can cause weird authentication issues.

When you are done, log off as the Jenkins user.

Jenkins, GIT plugin and Windows

Installing the plugin itself works like a charm but configuring the system to work properly under Windows can be a bit tricky. Let´s see the problems you may run into.

Git for Windows executable path

Note: Microsoft recommends using "Git for Windows" as the git CLI client for Visual Studio 2017

The "Path to executable" for "Git for Windows" is C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.exe

Configuring Jenkins to use OpenSSH bundled with msysgit Windows installer

By default, the Jenkins Windows installer sets up Jenkins to run as a service on Windows, which runs as the “Local System account”, NOT your user account. Since the “Local System account” does not have SSH keys or known_hosts set up, “git clone” will hang during the build. It's possible to keep Jenkins running as the “Local System account” and clone repositories via SSH by making sure that the “Local System account” is set up with a properly configured .ssh directory (i.e. id_rsa, id_rsa.pub, AND known_hosts). On my Windows 7 x64 box, this directory is C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\.ssh and in Windows Server 2012 R2 is C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile

The first time you connect via SSH to a remote server, you would normally get prompted with the question "Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?", which would populate the remote server info in your ~/.ssh/known_hosts. Even with proper SSH keys set up for the Jenkins user, if you don't have a properly configured ~/.ssh/known_hosts, the build will still hang.

A quick way to generate this known_hosts file is to copy your Jenkins build SSH keys into C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\.ssh (so that ssh.exe can find them), and run

 c:\>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\ssh.exe" -T git@your.git.server

This will populate C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\.ssh\known_hosts and then you can just copy C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\.ssh to C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\.ssh (the “Local System account” home).

For a more detailed tutorial, see http://computercamp-cdwilson-us.tumblr.com/post/48589650930/jenkins-git-clone-via-ssh-on-windows-7-x64

Adding the server to your trusted list

First of all, if your system/user never connected to the git server, you will have to add the server to your list of trusted servers.
If you get something like this:

The authenticity of host 'GIT SERVER (127.0.0.1)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 41:d2:d9:31:76:7d:bd:0d:5e:3f:19:db:5d:34:4d:9d.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes

or

The server's host key is not cached in the registry...

Find plink.exe on your system and run:

plink.exe yourgitserver.com

Answer Yes when prompt. You ignore the login part with CTRL+C.
Beware, this is user specific. SO if you run jenkins as user 'John', make sure you login as 'John' before running the previous command.

An alternative option is to add some entries in the registry to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT. You will typically run into this problem is you let Jenkins runn as "Local System" but try to add the key to your list while logged in with your user. The registry entries added for a specific user can be found here:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\SshHostKeys

Setup your environment variables

General hint: Avoid spaces in environment paths

Mainly, you will need:

GIT_HOME => Folder where your git.exe is located
HOME => The parent folder of the folder containing your SSH Keys (e.g If your keys are in C:\SSHKeys, set HOME to C:)
PATH => Add the folder where your plink.exe is located

Once this is done, make sure you restart your consoles and the jenkins service.

SSH Keys

You will need to generate your SSH keys. The public key will have to be added/installed on the server. Systems like Gitorious, Gitosis or Github make it easy: you will have to simply copy/paste your key. If you need to setup the authentication with a 'simple' server, look for 'authorized_keys' in this document http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/jpmg/ssh/authorized_keys_howto.html

You can read this: http://help.github.com/win-set-up-git/ to see how to generate the keys.

One solution to avoid entering your password (the one you defined in the ssh key in the process above) is to use Pageant.exe. Visit the link below for more details: http://www.ualberta.ca/CNS/RESEARCH/LinuxClusters/pka-putty.html

Note:* future *integration with ssh-credentials-plugin could help

Some windows fun

If you did everything, you should now have a ~/.ssh folder (c:\Users\Bob\.ssh for instance) and this folder contains your keys.
At that point, you may even be able to manually (from the console), clone your repository but Jenkins keeps failing with something like this:

code 128: Cloning into C:\Program Files\Jenkins\jobs\PG3\workspace...
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

If you run into this issue, you may need to copy the id_rsa* files from your ~./.ssh to another folder.
Find your git.exe and check if there is an .ssh folder there. If so, copy ~./ssh/id_rsa* to this folder and try again.

Git for Windows Installation and Windows Certificate Stores

A simpler approach with handling certificates in Windows is to configure Git to "Use the native Windows Secure Channel library" during its installation. This configures Git to use the Windows certificate stores to find certificates it needs to connect to remote repositories. Most typical Windows users use the Windows certificate stores to store web server certificates and personal certificates (e.g. pkcs #12) so using this setting makes sense. If you find that you are unable to clone a repository that uses https or requires a personal certificate for authentication, reinstall the Git client with this setting. One such error that relates to an authentication failure when connecting to a remote git repository is the following:

ERROR: Couldn't find any revision to build. Verify the repository and branch configuration for this job.

Visual Studio 2017 local source repositories

The Git repository URL for local Visual Studio 2017 repositories is "file:///c/users/<user>/source/repos/<solution/project>"

Example:

Push notification from repository

To minimize the delay between a push and a build, it is recommended to set up the post-receive hook in the repository to poke Jenkins when a new push occurs. To do this, add the following line in your hooks/post-receive file, where <URL of the Git repository> is the fully qualified URL you use when cloning this repository.

curl http://yourserver/git/notifyCommit?url=<URL of the Git repository>[&branches=branch1[,branch2]*][&sha1=<commit ID>]

This will scan all the jobs that:

Have Build Triggers > Poll SCM enabled. No polling Schedule is required.
Are configured to build the repository at the specified URL
Are configured to build the optionally specified branches or commit ID

For jobs that meet these conditions, polling will be immediately triggered. If polling finds a change worthy of a build, a build will in turn be triggered.

This allows a script to remain the same when jobs come and go in Jenkins. Or if you have multiple repositories under a single repository host application (such as Gitosis), you can share a single post-receive hook script with all the repositories. Finally, this URL doesn't require authentication even for secured Jenkins, because the server doesn't directly use anything that the client is sending. It runs polling to verify that there is a change, before it actually starts a build.

When successful, the list of projects that were triggered is returned.

<commit ID is optional. If set, it will trigger a build immediately, without polling for changes. The advantage of this is that you then can have all pushes tested by jenkins, even when developers push at the same time.

Enabling JGit

The git client plugin provides multiple git implementations. The default git implementation relies on command line git. Command line git must be installed on each agent.

Administrators can enable a pure java implementation of the git protocol from the "Git" button in "Manage Jenkins" > "Global Tool Configuration". Implementations are added with the "Add" button. Once JGit (or JGit apache) has been added, jobs will include a picklist "Git executable" in the git configuration section of the job.

Why Not JGit

As of 1.2.0, the Git plugin uses git-client-plugin for all Git low-level operation. git-client was extracted from git plugin 1.1.x code base, to ensure SoC and allow other plugins (gerrit, git-parameters...) to directly use and contribute to this one when needed.

The git-client plugin 1.0.4 used JGit by default, while still including the command line Git implementation as an alternate implementation. Initial deployments of the JGit based plugin exposed a number of gaps in the JGit implementation. Those gaps need to be resolved in the JGit implementation before it can be used as the default implementation. Beginning with git-client-plugin 1.0.5, the command line implementation is the default implementation.

The git-client-plugin provides both command line and JGit implementations for the GitClient interface. Using command line demonstrated (based on large git plugin issue list) to be fragile : running an external process any time some git repository interaction is required introduces file and process leaks, filesystem locks, etc. It's highly system dependent and require user to install and configure adequate tools on all build slaves. It's based on parsing command output, and as such can be broken by any git cli update - legacy code already check git-cli version to detect which option can be used. Once the JGit functionality gaps are closed, we consider JGit will be the way to go. If you want to experiment with the JGit implementation, either configure JGit as an available git installation from the "Manage Jenkins" page, or run Jenkins with -Dorg.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.Git.useCLI=false (same for slaves).

Fast Remote Polling

Fast Remote Polling is a feature that uses a speedy 'git ls-remote ...' command to perform the SCM polling action rather than having to a clone and fetch a local repository.

This feature is enabled by default as of versions 2.2+.

In the event that Fast Remote Polling is detected as being not possible (branches to build contains wildcards, etc), polling will fallback to requiring a workspace.

However, it is possible in some environments that Fast Remote Polling will not work due to the fact that it executes on the master and the master may not have a working Git installation.

A workaround for this is to add an additional behavior of Force polling using workspace to all jobs where you want to use SCM polling.

Advanced Features

Using Git, Jenkins and pre-build branch merging

Continuous Integration tools such as Jenkins are useful on projects as they give users early indication that a particular codebase is 'unstable' - and that if a developer checks it out, there will be trouble ahead (they won't be able to work on their own code, because someone else has broken something).

Unfortunately, by the time the build completes, this is often too late (particularly if the build cycle time is very long), as a developer has updated their working copy to the latest, unstable code in the repository and has begun work.

This can lead to the code base remaining unstable as developers tread on each others toes steadily fixing one thing, but breaking something else.

Some environments (e.g. TeamCity) attempt to fix this by making commits into SVN only 'really' happen once they have been tested. These kinds of 'delayed-commits' are problematic, because local SCM tools assume that commits will be immediately available, which can confuse them. In many ways this mechanism is a hack to get around the fact that branch management in SVN is very heavyweight.

Fortunately, with GIT and Jenkins, you can achieve the same 'stable branches' with minimal effort.

Set up your Jenkins project, and leave the 'branch' field in the Git SCM blank. This will cause Jenkins to consider any change on any branch for building.

Next, pick a particular branch name as the integration target in the 'Advanced' section - (e.g. 'master', or 'stable'), and select 'Merge before build'.

Select 'Push GIT tags back to origin repository' from the post-build actions (this is required to update your centralised git repo with the results of the build).

Now, developers should never commit directly to your integration branch (the 'master' or 'stable'). Instead, they should either use feature branches, or create new remote branches on commit (e.g : "git push origin HEAD:refs/heads/myNewFeature"). You could also set up your GIT repository to only accept commits onto the integration branch from Jenkins.

You're done. Commits should now be automatically merged with the integration branch (they will fail if they do not merge cleanly), and built. If the build succeeds, the result of the merge will be pushed back to the remote git repository.

Using Extra Repositories

Since GIT is a Distributed SCM, it is possible in the Advanced section to specify multiple repositories. You may wish to do this to, for example, pull all in-progress work from individual developers machines, and pre-test them before they are committed to a centralised repository - this way developers may get an early warning that a branch in progress may not be stable.

The GIT plugin will make reasonable attempts to try and pull submodule states from distributed repositories, with the proviso that this feature is not currently well supported within GIT itself.

Autogenerate submodule configurations

A common development pattern for many users is the use of a 'superproject' that aggregates a number of submodules. For example, ProjectA may have ComponentA, ComponentB and ComponentC. ComponentA is a shared library, and is set to use a particular revision (maybe on a branch called 'ProjectA' in case there are any changes). Usually, any changes to the project configuration require a commit to the ProjectA superproject.

However - there could be other changes happening on other branches of ComponentA (say to the development of the next version). Without someone generating commits into ProjectA to test these, any regressions or incompatibilities may be missed.

The autogenerate submodule configurations feature will create commits into ProjectA for all possible combinations of the branches present in the submodules that the project uses.

Recursive submodules

The GIT plugin supports repositories with submodules which in turn have submodules themselves. This must be turned on though: in Job Configuration -> Section Source Code Management, Git -> Advanced Button (under Branches to build) -> Recursively update submodules.

Environment variables

The git plugin sets several environment variables you can use in your scripts:

GIT_COMMIT - SHA of the current
GIT_BRANCH - Name of the remote repository (defaults to origin), followed by name of the branch currently being used, e.g. "origin/master" or "origin/foo"
GIT_LOCAL_BRANCH - Name of the branch on Jenkins. When the "checkout to specific local branch" behavior is configured, the variable is published. If the behavior is configured as null or **, the property will contain the resulting local branch name sans the remote name.
GIT_PREVIOUS_COMMIT - SHA of the previous built commit from the same branch (not set on first build on a branch)
GIT_PREVIOUS_SUCCESSFUL_COMMIT - SHA of the previous successfully built commit from the same branch (not set on first build on a branch)
GIT_URL - Repository remote URL
GIT_URL_N - Repository remote URLs when there are more than 1 remotes, e.g. GIT_URL_1, GIT_URL_2
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_COMMITTER_NAME - The name entered if the "Custom user name/e-mail address" behaviour is enabled; falls back to the value entered in the Jenkins system config under "Global Config user.name Value" (if any)
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL and GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL - The email entered if the "Custom user name/e-mail address" behaviour is enabled; falls back to the value entered in the Jenkins system config under "Global Config user.email Value" (if any)

Change Log

Version 3.10.0 (May 2, 2019)

Require Java 8
Require Jenkins 2.121.1 or newer
Fix upgrade compatibility error for mergeStrategy 'default' of pre-build merge in pipeline jobs (JENKINS-51638)

Version 3.9.4 (April 24, 2019)

Fix object not found exception scanning multibranch pipeline repo (JENKINS-50394)

Version 4.0.0-rc (January 30, 2019)

Require Java 8
Require Jenkins 2.60
Make matrix project dependency optional
Add shallow cloning for submodules (JENKINS-21248)
Add option to search for users by e-mail address (JENKINS-9016)
Add parallel update for submodules (JENKINS-44720)
Stop bloating build.xml files with BuildData (JENKINS-19022)
Fix notifyCommit for branch names that contain '/' characters (JENKINS-29603, JENKINS-32174)
Fix empty "depth" parameter handling for shallow cloning (JENKINS-53050)
Ignore exceptions when generating commit message as informational message in build log (JENKINS-53725)
Fix snippet generator gitlab version class cast exception (JENKINS-46650)
Fix git tool references on agent (JENKINS-55827)

Version 3.9.3 (January 30, 2019)

Fix local tool reference was ignored (JENKINS-55827), regression in 3.9.2

Version 3.9.2 (January 28, 2019)

Fix security issue

Version 3.9.1 (June 4, 2018)

Fix security issue (security advisory)

Version 3.9.0 (May 12, 2018)

Require Jenkins 1.642.3 instead of 1.625.3 (workflow dependency update)
Test automation improvements (JENKINS-50621, JENKINS-50540, JENKINS-50777)
Support SHA1 references in Pipeline shared libraries (JENKINS-48061)
Added a new trait enabling discovery of custom refs (JENKINS-48061)
Don't require a workspace for polling in Freestyle projects that use ChangeLogToBranch extension
Don't require a workspace for polling in Freestyle projects that use author in changelog extension (JENKINS-50683 and google groups discussion)
Correct the Pipeline data binding for merge strategy in UserMergeOptions (JENKINS-34070)
Retain repository browser URL when saved from Pipeline job definition page (JENKINS-36451)

Version 3.8.0 (February 26, 2018)

Fix security issue (security advisory)

Version 3.7.0 (December 21, 2017)

Fix checkout performance regression due to many rev-parse calls (JENKINS-45447)
Add Bitbucket and Gitlab browser guessing (in addition to existing GitHub browser guessing) (PR#562)
Validate Fisheye git browser URL during input (JENKINS-48064)
Allow retry by throwing IOException if submodule update fails (JENKINS-32481)
Don't pass empty username to User.get() (JENKINS-48589)

Version 3.6.4 (November 5, 2017)

Add support for tagged pipeline shared libraries lost in 3.6.3 (JENKINS-47824)

Version 3.6.3 (October 26, 2017)

Fix ssh based branch indexing failure with default credentials (JENKINS-47629, JENKINS-47659, JENKINS-47680)

Version 3.6.2 (October 23, 2017)

Fix visibility of enum required to implement new API for JENKINS-47526

Version 3.6.1 (October 23, 2017)

A merge conflict in PreBuildMerge will corrupt BuildData history in previous builds (JENKINS-44037)
Allow up to 4 second time offset in Windows file systems (PR#536)
Improve test coverage (PR#537, PR#539, PR#540)
Fix incorrect activation of tag categories (the tag category was enabled in all the right situations but as a result of the wrong test) (PR#541)
Remove duplicate code in AbstractGitSCMSource (PR#542)
Optimize operations that do not require a local repository cache (PR#544)
Resolve parameters in UserMergeOptions (PR#522)
Provide an API to allow avoiding local repository cache for GitSCMSource (JENKINS-47526)
Change the UI for Advaced Clone Behaviours to avoid confusing "negative" fetch tags label (JENKINS-45822)

Version 3.6.0 (October 2, 2017)

Allow traits to support tag discovery (JENKINS-46207)
Don't exceed response header length (JENKINS-46929)
Don't fail build if diagnostic print of commit message fails (JENKINS-45729)

Version 3.5.1 (August 5, 2017)

Extend API for Blue Ocean pipeline editing support in git
Extend API to allow PreBuildMerge trait through a new plugin
Don't ignore branches with '/' in GitSCMFileSystem (JENKINS-42817)
Show folder scoped credentials in modern SCM (JENKINS-44271)

Version 3.5.0 (July 28, 2017)

Upgrade to Git Client Plugin version 2.5.0
Switch GitSCMSource indexing based on ls-remote to correctly determine orphaned branches (JENKINS-44751)
(Internal, not user visible) Provide an extension for downstream SCMSource plugins to use for PR merging that disables shallow clones when doing a PR-merge (JENKINS-45771)

Version 3.4.1 (July 18, 2017)

Fix credentials field being incorrectly marked as transient (JENKINS-45598)

Version 3.4.0 (July 17, 2017)

Refactor the Git Branch Source UI / UX to simplify configuration and enable configuration options to be shared with dependent plugins such as GitHub Branch Source and Bitbucket Branch Source (JENKINS-43507). Please consult the linked ticket for full details. The high-level changes are:
- There were a number of behaviours that are valid when used from a standalone job but are not valid in the context of a branch source and a multibranch project. These behaviours did not (and could not) work when configured against a branch source. These behaviours have been removed as configuration options for a Git Branch Source.
- In the context of a multibranch project, the checkout to local branch behaviour will now just check out to the branch name that matches the name of the branch. The ability to specify a fixed custom branch name does not make sense in the context of a multibranch project.
- Because each branch job in a multibranch project will only ever build the one specific branch, the default behaviour for a Git Branch Source is now to use a minimal refspec corresponding to just the required branch. Tags will not be checked out by default. If you have a multibranch project that requires the full set of ref-specs (for example, you might have a pipeline that will use some analysis tool on the diff with some other branch) you can restore the previous behaviour by adding the "Advanced Clone Behaviours". Note: In some cases you may also need to add the "Specify ref specs" behaviour.

Version 3.3.2 (July 10, 2017)

Fix security issue (security advisory)

Version 3.3.1 (June 23, 2017)

Print first line of commit message in console log (JENKINS-38241 )
Allow scm steps to return revision (JENKINS-26100 )
Don't require crumb for POST to /git/notifyCommit even when CSRF is enabled (JENKINS-34350)
Fix credentials tracking null pointer exception in pipeline library use (JENKINS-44640)
Fix credentials tracking null pointer exception in git parameters use (JENKINS-44087)

Version 3.3.0 (April 21, 2017)

Track credentials use so that credentials show the jobs which use them (JENKINS-38827)
Add a "Branches" list view column (JENKINS-37331)
Add some Italian localization
Fix null pointer exception when pipeline definition includes a branch with no repository (JENKINS-43630)

Version 3.2.0 (March 28, 2017)

Add reporting API for default remote branch (JENKINS-40834)
Remove extra git tag actions from build results sidebar (JENKINS-35475)

Version 3.1.0 (March 4, 2017)

Add command line git large file support (LFS) (JENKINS-30318, JENKINS-35687, JENKINS-38708, JENKINS-40174)
Allow custom remote and refspec for GitSCMSource (JENKINS-40908)
Add help for GitSCMSource (JENKINS-42204)
Add help for multiple refspecs (JENKINS-42050)
Log a warning if buildsByBranchName is too large (JENKINS-19022)
Avoid incorrect triggers when processing events (JENKINS-42236)

Version 3.0.5 (February 9, 2017)

Please read this Blog Post before upgrading
Upgrade SCM API dependency to 2.0.3
Expose event origin to listeners (JENKINS-41812)

Version 2.6.5 (February 9, 2017)

Please read this Blog Post before upgrading
Upgrade SCM API dependency to 2.0.3
Expose event origin to listeners (JENKINS-41812)

Version 3.0.4 (February 2, 2017)

Please read this Blog Post before upgrading
Upgrade to latest SCM API dependency

Version 2.6.4 (February 2, 2017)

Please read this Blog Post before upgrading
Upgrade to latest SCM API dependency
Remove beta dependency that was left by mistake in the 2.6.2 release (this is what 2.6.2 should have been)

Version 3.0.3 (January 16, 2017)

Please read this Blog Post before upgrading
Remove beta dependency that was left by mistake in the 3.0.2 release (this is what 3.0.2 should have been)

Version 2.6.3 (SKIPPED)

This version number has been skipped to keep alignment of the patch version with the 3.0.x line until the SCM API coordinated releases have been published to the update center

Version 3.0.2 (January 16, 2017)

Please read this Blog Post before upgrading
Fix potential NPE in matching credentials (PR #467)
Add API to allow plugins to configure the SCM browser after instantiation (JENKINS-39837)
Updated Japanese translations
Upgrade to SCM API 2.0.x APIs (JENKINS-39355)
Fix help text (PR #451)

Version 2.6.2 (January 16, 2017)

Please read this Blog Post before upgrading
Allow the SCM browser to be configured after SCM instance created (JENKINS-39837)
Fixed translations
Fixed copyright
Updated Japanese translation
Upgrade to SCM API 2.0.x APIs (JENKINS-39355)
API to get author or committer email without having to call getAuthor()

Version 3.0.2-beta-1 (December 16, 2016)

Update to SCM-API 2.0.1 APIs (JENKINS-39355)
Add implementation of SCMFileSystem (JENKINS-40382)
Fix help text for excluded regions regex (PR#451)

Version 2.6.2-beta-1 (December 16, 2016)

Update to SCM-API 2.0.1 APIs (JENKINS-39355)
Add implementation of SCMFileSystem (JENKINS-40382)

Version 3.0.1 (November 18, 2016)

Allow retrieval of a single revision (for improved pipeline support) (JENKINS-31155)
Avoid null pointer exception in prebuild use of build data (JENKINS-34369)
Allow git credentials references from global configuration screens (JENKINS-38048)
Use correct specific version in workflow pipeline on subsequent builds (e15a43)

Version 2.6.1 (November 9, 2016)

Allow retrieval of a single revision (for improved pipeline support) (JENKINS-31155)
Avoid null pointer exception in prebuild use of build data (JENKINS-34369)
Allow git credentials references from global configuration screens (JENKINS-38048)
Use correct specific version in workflow pipeline on subsequent builds (e15a43)

Version 3.0.0 (September 10, 2016)

Add submodule authentication using same credentials as parent repository (JENKINS-20941)
Require JDK 7 and Jenkins 1.625 as minimum Jenkins version

Version 2.6.0 (September 2, 2016)

Add command line git support to multi-branch pipeline jobs (JENKINS-33983, JENKINS-35565 JENKINS-35567, JENKINS-36958, JENKINS-37297)
Remove deleted branches from multi-branch cache when using command line git (JENKINS-37727)
Create multi-branch cache parent directories if needed (JENKINS-37482)
Use credentials API 2.1 (JENKINS-35525)

Version 2.5.3 (July 30, 2016)

Prepare to coexist with git client plugin 2.0 when it changes from JGit 3 to JGit 4 (commit)
Fix gogs repository browser configuration (JENKINS-37066)
Optionally "honor refspec on initial clone" rather than always honoring refspec on initial clone (JENKINS-36507)
Don't ignore the checkout timeout value (JENKINS-22547)

Version 3.0.0-beta2 (July 6, 2016)

Fix compatibility break introduced by git plugin 2.5.1 release (JENKINS-36419)
Add many more git options to multi-branch project plugin and literate plugin (plugins which use GitSCMSource)
Improved help for regex branch specifiers and branch name matching
Improve github browser guesser for more forms of GitHub URL
Use Jenkins common controls for numeric entry in fields which are limited to numbers (like shallow clone depth). Blocks the user from inserting alphabetic characters into a field which should take numbers
Honor refspec on initial fetch (JENKINS-31393) (note, some users may depend on the old, poor behavior that the plugin fetched all refspecs even though the user had specified a narrower refspec. Those users can delete their refspec or modify it to be as wide as they need)
Disallow deletion of the last repository entry in git configuration (JENKINS-33956)

Version 2.5.2 (July 4, 2016)

Fix compatibility break introduced by git plugin 2.5.1 release (JENKINS-36419)

Version 2.5.1 (July 2, 2016)

Add many more git options to multi-branch project plugin and literate plugin (plugins which use GitSCMSource)
Improved help for regex branch specifiers and branch name matching
Improve github browser guesser for more forms of GitHub URL
Use Jenkins common controls for numeric entry in fields which are limited to numbers (like shallow clone depth). Blocks the user from inserting alphabetic characters into a field which should take numbers
Honor refspec on initial fetch (JENKINS-31393) (note, some users may depend on the old, poor behavior that the plugin fetched all refspecs even though the user had specified a narrower refspec. Those users can delete their refspec or modify it to be as wide as they need)
Disallow deletion of the last repository entry in git configuration (JENKINS-33956)

Version 2.5.0 (June 19, 2016) - Submodule authentication has moved into git 3.0.0-beta

Reject parameters passed through unauthenticated notifyCommit calls (SECURITY-275)
Don't generate error when two repos defined and specific SHA1 is built (JENKINS-26268)
Fix stack trace generated when AssemblaWeb used as git hosting service
Fix array index violation when e-mail address is single character "@"
Add support for gogs self-hosted git service
Use environment from executing node rather than using environment from master
Move pipeline GitStep from pipeline plugin to git plugin (JENKINS-35247); note that if you have the Pipeline: SCM Step plugin installed, you must update it as well

Version 3.0.0-beta1 (June 15, 2016)

Continuation of git plugin 2.5.0-beta series (2.5.0 release number used for SECURITY-275 fix)
Don't generate error when two repos defined and specific SHA1 is built (JENKINS-26268)
Fix stack trace generated when AssemblaWeb used as git hosting service
Fix array index violation when e-mail address is single character "@"
Add support for gogs self-hosted git service
Use environment from executing node rather than using environment from master
Move pipeline GitStep from pipeline plugin to git plugin (JENKINS-35247)

Version 2.5.0-beta5 (April 19, 2016)

Fix botched merge that was included in 2.5.0-beta4
Include latest changes from master branch (git plugin 2.4.4)

Version 2.4.4 (March 24, 2016)

Fix git plugin 2.4.3 data loss when saving job definition (JENKINS-33695 and JENKINS-33564)
Restore BuildData.equals lost in git plugin 2.4.2 revert mistake (JENKINS-29326)

Version 2.4.3 (March 19, 2016)

Optionally derive local branch name from remote branch name (JENKINS-33202)
Allow shallow clone depth to be specified (JENKINS-24728)
Allow publishing from shallow clone if git version supports it (JENKINS-31108)
Allow GitHub browser guesser to work even if multiple refspecs defined for same URL (JENKINS-33409)
Clarify Team Foundation Server browser name (remove 2013 specific string)
Reduce memory use in difference calculation (JENKINS-31326)
Resolve several findbugs warnings

Version 2.4.2 (February 1, 2016)

Show changelog even if prune stale branches is enabled (JENKINS-29482)
Set GIT_PREVIOUS_SUCCESSFUL_COMMIT even if prune stale branches is enabled (JENKINS-32218)

Version 2.4.1 (December 26, 2015)

Allow clone to optionally not fetch tags (JENKINS-14572)
Allow submodules to use a reference repo (JENKINS-18666)
Use OR instead of AND when combining multiple refspecs (JENKINS-29796)
Remove dead branches from BuildData (JENKINS-29482)
Fix Java 6 date parsing error (JENKINS-29857)
Set changeset time correctly (JENKINS-30073)
Include parent SHA1 in RhodeCode diff URL (JENKINS-17117)
Don't set GIT_COMMIT to an empty value (JENKINS-27180)
Fix AssemblaWeb diff link (JENKINS-29731)
Attempt fix for multi-scm sporadic failures (JENKINS-26587)

Version 2.5.0-beta3 (November 12, 2015)

Still more work on submodule authentication support by allowing submodules to use parent credentials (JENKINS-20941)

Version 2.5.0-beta2 (November 8, 2015)

More work on submodule authentication support by allowing submodules to use parent credentials (JENKINS-20941)

Version 2.5.0-beta1 (November 4, 2015)

Submodule authentication support by allowing submodules to use parent credentials (JENKINS-20941)

Version 2.4.0 (July 18, 2015)

Branch spec help text improved (JENKINS-27115)
Allow additional notifyCommit arguments (JENKINS-27902)
Parameterized branch name handling improvements (Pull requests 226, 308, 309, JENKINS-27327, JENKINS-27351, JENKINS-27352)
Display error message in log when fetch fails (regression fix) (JENKINS-26225, JENKINS-27567, JENKINS-27886, JENKINS-28134)
Fix IllegalStateException when using notifyCommit URL (JENKINS-26582)
Allow branch specification regex which does not include '*' (JENKINS-26842)
Detect changes correctly when polling (JENKINS-27093, JENKINS-27332, JENKINS-27769)
Fix GitHub Webhook handling (JENKINS-27282)
Fix polling with a parameterized branch name (JENKINS-27349)
Don't throw exception when changelog entry is missing parent (JENKINS-28260, JENKINS-28290, JENKINS-28291)
Don't throw exception when saving GitLab browser config (JENKINS-28792)
Rebuild happened on each poll, even with no changes (JENKINS-29066)
Remote class loading issue work-around (JENKINS-21520)

Version 2.3.5 (February 18, 2015)

Support Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2013 as a git repository browser
Support more merge modes (fast forward, no fast forward, fast forward only (JENKINS-12402)
Handle regular expression branch name correctly even if it does not contain asterisk (JENKINS-26842)
Log the error stack trace if fetch fails (temporary diagnostic aid)

Version 2.3.4 (January 8, 2015)

Fix jelly page escape bug (which was visible in the GitHub plugin)

Version 2.2.12 (January 8, 2015)

Fix jelly page escape bug (which was visible in the GitHub plugin)

Version 2.3.3 (January 6, 2015)

Use git client plugin 1.15.0
Escape HTML generated into jelly pages with escape="true"
Expand environment variables in GitPublisher again (JENKINS-24786)

Version 2.2.11 (January 6, 2015)

Update to JGit 3.6.1
Use git client plugin 1.15.0
Escape HTML generated into jelly pages with escape="true"
Fix multiple builds can be triggered for same commit (JENKINS-25639)

Version 2.3.2 (December 19, 2014)

Use git client plugin 1.13.0 (CVE-2014-9390)

Version 2.2.10 (December 19, 2014)

Use git client plugin 1.13.0 (CVE-2014-9390)
Do not continuously build when polling multiple repositories (JENKINS-25639)

Version 2.3.1 (November 29, 2014)

Add a build chooser to limit branches to be built based on age or ancestor SHA1
Update to git-client-plugin 1.12.0 (includes JGit 3.5.2)
Allow polling to ignore detected changes based on commit content
Do not continuously build when polling multiple repositories (JENKINS-25639)
Expand parameters on repository url before associate one url to one credential (JENKINS-23675)
Expand parameters on branch spec for remote polling (JENKINS-20427, JENKINS-14276)
Fix Gitiles file link for various Gitiles versions (JENKINS-25568)
Fixed notifyCommit builddata (JENKINS-24133)
Improve notifyCommit message to reduce user confusion

Version 2.2.9 (November 23, 2014)

Added behavior: "Polling ignores commits with certain messages"
GIT_BRANCH set to detached when sha1 parameter set in notifyCommit URL (JENKINS-24133)

Version 2.2.8 (November 12, 2014)

Add submodule update timeout as an option (JENKINS-22400)
Update Gitlab support for newer Gitlab versions (JENKINS-25568)
No exception if changeset author can't be found (JENKINS-16737 and JENKINS-10434)
Annotate builddata earlier to reduce race conditions (JENKINS-23641)
Pass marked revision to decorate revision (JENKINS-25191)
Avoid null pointer exception when last repo or branch deleted (JENKINS-25313)
Allow retry by throwing a different exception during certain fetch failures (JENKINS-20531)
Do not require a workspace when polling multiple repositories (JENKINS-25414)

Version 2.3 (November 10, 2014)

Released for Jenkins 1.568 and later, update center will exclude from earlier Jenkins versions
Do not require a workspace when polling multiple repositories (JENKINS-25414)

Version 2.3-beta-4 (October 29, 2014)

Update to JGit 3.5.1
Allow retry if fetch fails (JENKINS-20531)
Don't NPE if all repos and all branches removed from job definition (JENKINS-25313)
Correctly record built revision even on failed merge (JENKINS-25191)
Record build data sooner for better concurrency and safety (JENKINS-23641)
Do not throw exception if author can't be found in change set (JENKINS-16737, JENKINS-10434)

Version 2.2.7 (October 8, 2014)

Honor project specific Item/CONFIGURE permission even if overall Item/CONFIGURE has not been granted (SECURITY-158)
Save current build in BuildData prior to rescheduling (JENKINS-21464)
Fix GitPublisher null pointer exception when previous slave is missing
Expand variables in branch spec for remote polling (JENKINS-20427, JENKINS-14276)
Add GIT_PREVIOUS_SUCCESSFUL_COMMIT environment variable

Version 2.3-beta-3 (October 8, 2014)

Honor project specific Item/CONFIGURE permission even if overall Item/CONFIGURE has not been granted (SECURITY-158)
Save current build in BuildData prior to rescheduling (JENKINS-21464)
Fix GitPublisher null pointer exception when previous slave is missing
Expand variables in branch spec for remote polling (JENKINS-20427, JENKINS-14276)
Add GIT_PREVIOUS_SUCCESSFUL_COMMIT environment variable

Version 2.2.6 (September 20, 2014)

Add optional "force" to push from publisher (JENKINS-24082)
Support gitlist as a repository browser (JENKINS-19029)
Print the remote HEAD SHA1 in poll results to ease diagnostics
Add help describing the regex syntax allowed for "Branches to build"
Improve environment support which caused git polling to fail with "ssh not found" (JENKINS-24516, JENKINS-24467)
Pass a listener to calls to getEnvironment (JENKINS-24772)

Version 2.3-beta-2 (September 3, 2014)

Print remote head when fetching a SHA1
Assembla browser breaks config page (JENKINS-24261)
Recent changes is always empty in merge job (JENKINS-20392)
Polling incorrectly detects changes when refspec contains variable (JENKINS-22009)
Matrix project fails pre-merge (JENKINS-23179)
Add "Change log compare to branch" option to improve "Recent changes" for certain use cases
Add Assembla as supported source code and change browser support
Add Gitiles as supported source code and change browser support (android project git browser)
Return correct date/time to REST query of build date (JENKINS-23791)
Add timeout option to checkout (for slow file systems and large repos) (JENKINS-22400)
Expand parameters on repository url before evaluating credentials (JENKINS-23675)
Update to git-client-plugin 1.10.1.0 and JGit 3.4.1
Update other dependencies (ssh-credentials, credentials, httpcomponents, joda-time)

Version 2.2.5 (August 15, 2014)

Assembla browser breaks config page (JENKINS-24261)
Recent changes is always empty in merge job (JENKINS-20392)
Polling incorrectly detects changes when refspec contains variable (JENKINS-22009)
Matrix project fails pre-merge (JENKINS-23179)

Version 2.2.4 (August 2, 2014)

Add "Change log compare to branch" option to improve "Recent changes" for certain use cases
Add Assembla as supported source code and change browser support
Add Gitiles as supported source code and change browser support (android project git browser)
Return correct date/time to REST query of build date (JENKINS-23791)

Version 2.2.3 (July 31, 2014)

Add timeout option to checkout (for slow file systems and large repos) (JENKINS-22400)
Expand parameters on repository url before evaluating credentials (JENKINS-23675)
Update to git-client-plugin 1.10.1.0 and JGit 3.4.1
Update other dependencies (ssh-credentials, credentials, httpcomponents, joda-time)

Version 2.3-beta-1 (June 16, 2014)

Adapting to SCM API changes in Jenkins 1.568+. (JENKINS-23365)
Fixed advanced branch spec behaviour in getCandidateRevisions
includes/excludes branches specified using wildcard, and separated by white spaces.
Update to git-client-plugin 1.9.0 and JGit 3.4.0
Option to set submodules update timeout (JENKINS-22400)

Version 2.2.2 (June 24, 2014)

Remote API export problem finally fixed (JENKINS-9843)

Version 2.2.1 (April 12, 2014)

Allow clean before checkout (JENKINS-22510)
Do not append trailing slash to most repository browser URL's (JENKINS-22342)
Fix null pointer exception in git polling with inverse build chooser (JENKINS-22053)

Version 2.2.0 (April 4, 2014)

Add optional submodule remote tracking if git version newer than 1.8.2 (JENKINS-19468)
Update to JGit 3.3.1
Fix javadoc warnings

Version 2.1.0 (March 31, 2014)

Support sparse checkout if git version newer than 1.8.2 (JENKINS-21809)
Improve performance when many branches are in the repository (JENKINS-5724)
Retain git browser URL when saving job configuration (JENKINS-22064)
Resolve tags which contain slashes (JENKINS-21952)

Version 2.0.4 (March 6, 2014)

Allow extension to require workspace for polling (JENKINS-19001)
??? (tbd)

Version 2.0.3 (February 21, 2014)

Fix the post-commit hook notification logic (according to SCMTrigger.html#isIgnorePostCommitHooks)

Version 2.0.2 (February 20, 2014)

Option to configure timeout on major git operations (clone, fetch)
Locks are considered a retryable failure
notifyCommit now accept a sha1 - make commit hook design simpler and more efficient (no poll required)
Extend branch specifier (JENKINS-17417) and git repository URL
Better support for branches with "/" in name (JENKINS-14026)
Improve backward compatibility (JENKINS-20861)

Version 2.0.1 (January 8, 2014)

Use git-credentials-store so http credentials don't appear in workspace (JENKINS-20318)
Prune branch during fetch (JENKINS-20258)
Fix migration for 1.x skiptag option (JENKINS-20561)
Enforce Refsepc configuration after clone (JENKINS-20502)

Version 2.0 (October 22, 2013) - just in time for JUC :P

Refactored git plugin for UI to keep clean. Most exotic features now are isolated in Extensions, that is the recommended way to introduce new features
Introduce support for credentials (both ssh and username/password) based on credentials plugin

Version 1.5.0 (August 28, 2013)

Additional environmental values available to git notes
Extension point for other plugin to receive commit notifications
Support promoted builds plugin (passing GitRevisionParameter)
Do not re-use last build's environment for remote polling (JENKINS-14321)
Fixed variable expansion during polling (JENKINS-7411)
Added Phabricator and Kiln Harmony repository browsers, fixed GitLab URLs

Version 1.4.0 (May 13, 2013)

Avoid spaces in tag name, rejected by JGit (JENKINS-17195)
Force UTF-8 encoding to read changelog file (JENKINS-6203)
Retry build if SCM retry is configured (issue #14575)
Allow merge results to push from slave nodes, not just from master node (issue #16941)

Version 1.3.0 (March 12, 2013)

Fix a regression fetching from multiple remote repositories (JENKINS-16914)
Fix stackoverflow recursive invocation error caused by MailAddressResolver (JENKINS-16849)
Fix invalid id computing merge changelog (JENKINS-16888)
Fix lock on repository files (JENKINS-12188)
Use default git installation if none matches (JENKINS-17013).
Expand reference parameter when set with variables
Expose GIT_URL environment variable (JENKINS-16684)
Branch can be set by a regexp, starting with a colon (pull request #138)

Version 1.2.0 (February 20, 2013)

move git client related stuff into Git Client plugin
double checked backward compatibility with gerrit, git-parameter and cloudbees validated-merge plugins.

Version 1.1.29 (February 17, 2013)

fix a regression that breaks jenkins remoting
restore BuildChooser API signature, that introduced JENKINS-16851

Version 1.1.27 (February 17, 2013)

add version field to support new GitLab URL-scheme
Trim branch name - a valid branch name does not begin or end with whitespace. (JENKINS-15235)
set changeSet.kind to "git"
Avoid some calls to "git show"
Fix checking for an email address (JENKINS-16453)
update Git logo icon
Pass combineCommits to action (JENKINS-15160)
expose previous built commit from same branch as GIT_PREVIOUS_COMMIT
re-schedule project when multiple candidate revisions are left
expand parameters in the remote branch name of merge options

GitAPI cleanup

Long term plan is to replace GitAPI cli-based implementation with a pure java (JGit) one, so that plugin is not system dependent.

move git-plugin specific logic in GitSCM, have GitAPI implementation handle git client stuff only
removed unused methods
create unit test suite for GitAPI
create alternate GitAPI implementation based on JGit

Version 1.1.26 (November 13, 2012)

git polling mechanism can have build in infinite loop (JENKINS-15803)

Version 1.1.25 (October 13, 2012)

Do "git reset" when we do "git clean" on git submodules (pull #100)
NullPointerException during tag publishing (JENKINS-15391)
Adds RhodeCode support (JENKINS-15420)
Improved the BuildChooser extension point for other plugins.

Version 1.1.24 (September 27, 2012)

Shorten build data display name issue #15048
Use correct refspec when fetching submodules issue #8149
Allow a message to be associated with a tag created by the plugin

Version 1.1.23 (September 3, 2012)

Improve changelog parsing for merge targets
prevent process to hang when git waits for user to interactively provide credentials
option to create a shallow clone to reduce network usage cloning large git repositories
option to use committer/author email as ID in jenkins user database when parsing changelog (needed for openID / SSO integration)
validate repository URL on job configuration

Version 1.1.22 (August 8, 2012)

Fix regression for fully qualified branch name (REPOSITORY/BRANCH) JENKINS-14480
Add support for variable expansion on branch spec (not just job parameters) JENKINS-8563
Use master environment, not last build node, for fast remote polling JENKINS-14321
run reset --hard on clean to take care of any local artifact
normalize maven repository ID JENKINS-14443

Version 1.1.21 (July 10, 2012)

Fixed support for "/" in branches names (JENKINS-14026)
Fixed issue on windows+msysgit to escape "^" on git command line (JENKINS-13007)

Version 1.1.20 (June 25, 2012)

Fixed NPE (JENKINS-10880)
Fixed a git-rev-parse problem on Windows (JENKINS-13007)
Use 'git whatchanged' instead of 'git show' (JENKINS-13580)
Added git note support

Version 1.1.19 (June 8, 2012)

restore GitAPI constructor for backward compatibility (JENKINS-12025)
CGit browser support (JENKINS-6963).
Handle special meaning of some charactes on Windows (JENKINS-13007)
fixed java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: java/lang/String.isEmpty() (JENKINS-13993).
Git icon(git-48x48.png) missing in job page. (JENKINS-13413).
Git "Tag to push" should trim whitespace (JENKINS-13550).

Version 1.1.18 (April 27, 2012)

Loosened the repository matching algorithm for the push notification to better work with a repository with multiple access protocols.

Version 1.1.17 (April 9, 2012)

Fixed NPE in compareRemoteRevisionWith (JENKINS-10880)
Improved the caching of static resources
notifyCommit endpoint now accept a comma delimited list of affected branches. Only the build(s) that match those branches will be triggered

Version 1.1.16 (February 28, 2012)

You can look up builds by their SHA1 through URLs like http://yourserver/jenkins/job/foo/scm/bySHA1/ab1249ab/ (any prefix of SHA1 will work)
Perform environment variable expansion on the checkout directory.
Support GitLab scm browser
Support BitBucket.org scm browser
option to set includes regions (JENKINS-11749)
fix regression to deserialize build history (JENKINS-12369)

Version 1.1.15 (December 27, 2011)

Fixed a bug where the push notification didn't work with read-protected projects. (JENKINS-12022)
Improved the handling of disabled projects in the push notification.

Version 1.1.14 (November 30, 2011)

Added support for instant commit push notifications (see also this blog post)

Version 1.1.13 (November 24, 2011)

option to ignore submodules completely (JENKINS-6658)
support FishEye scm browser (JENKINS-7849)
inverse choosing strategy to select all branches except for those specified (pull request #45)
option to clone from a reference repository
fix databinding bug (JENKINS-9914)
action to tag a build, similar to subversion plugin feature

Version 1.1.12 (August 5, 2011)

When choosing the branch to build, Jenkins will pick up the oldest branch to induce fairness in the scheduling. (it looks at the timestamp of the tip of the branch.)
Git now polls without needing a workspace (JENKINS-10131)
Fixed the "no remote from branch name" problem (JENKINS-10060)

Version 1.1.11 (July 22, 2011)

Add support for generating links to Gitorious repositories. (https://github.com/jenkinsci/git-plugin/pull/38)
Fixed DefaultBuildChooser logic (JENKINS-10408)

Version 1.1.10 (July 15, 2011)

Merge options persist properly now. (JENKINS-10270)
Fixed NPE in PreBuildMergeOptions when using REST API. (JENKINS-9843)
Global config name/email handle whitespace properly. (JENKINS-10272, JENKINS-9566)
Improved memory handling of "git whatchanged". (JENKINS-8365)
Excluded regions should now work with multiple commit changesets. (JENKINS-8342)
ViewGit support added. (JENKINS-5163)
Fixed NPE when validating remote for publisher. (JENKINS-9971)
Tool selection persists now. (JENKINS-9765)
Remote branch pruning now happens after fetch, to make sure all remotes are defined. (JENKINS-10348)

Version 1.1.9 (May 16, 2011)

Don't strip off interesting stuff from branch names in token macro (JENKINS-9510)
Changes to serialization to support working with the MultiSCM plugin and general cleanliness. (github pull request)
Check to be sure remote actually exists in local repo before running "git remote prune" against it. (JENKINS-9661)
Eliminate a problem with NPEs on git config user.name/user.email usage on upgrades. (JENKINS-9702)
Add a check for git executable version as 1.7 or greater before using --progress on git clone calls. (JENKINS-9635)

Version 1.1.8 (May 6, 2011)

Re-release of 1.1.7 to deal with forked version of plugin having already released with same groupId/artifactId/version as our 1.1.7 release, thereby breaking things.

Version 1.1.7 (May 4, 2011)

GIT_COMMIT environment variable now available in builds. (JENKINS-9253)
Improved wording of error message when no revision is found to build. (JENKINS-9339)
Added "--progress" to git clone call. (JENKINS-9168)
Underlying error actually shown when git fetch fails. (JENKINS-9052)
git config options for user.name and user.email now save properly. (JENKINS-9071)
Properly handle empty string for branch when branch is parameterized. (JENKINS-8656)
If no Jenkins user is found for a commit's user.name value, strip the username from "username@domain.com" from the user.email value and use that instead. (JENKINS-9016)

Version 1.1.6 (March 8, 2011)

Fix for warning stacktrace if paramaterized trigger plugin was not installed.
No longer try to generate complete history as changelog if previous build's SHA1 no longer exists in repository. (JENKINS-8853)
Fixed bug causing "Firstname Lastname@domain.com" to be used as email address for users. (JENKINS-7156)
Passwords should now be properly used in https URLs. (JENKINS-3807)
Exposed a few token macros

Version 1.1.5 (February 14, 2011)

Added an extension for Parameterized Trigger Plugin to allow Git SHA1 of the current build to be passed to downstream builds (so that they can act on the exact same commit.)
Allowed optional disabling of internal tagging (JENKINS-5676)
If specified, use configured values for user.email and user.name (JENKINS-2754)
Removed obsolete/unused wipe out workspace option and defunct Gerrit build chooser.
Rebranded to Jenkins!

Version 1.1.4 (December 4, 2010)

For Matrix projects, push only at the end of the whole thing, not at the configuration build (JENKINS-5005).
Switching between browsers does not function properly (JENKINS-8210).
Implement support for Redmine as browser.

Version 1.1.3 (November 8, 2010)

No changes except of updated version according to scm.

Version 1.1.2 (November 8, 2010)

Fixed major bug in polling (JENKINS-8032)

Version 1.1.1 (November 5, 2010)

Improved logging for failures with git fetch.
Made sure .gitmodules is closed properly. (JENKINS-7659)
Fixed issue with polling failing if the master has 0 executors. (JENKINS-7547)
Modified Git publisher to run as late as possible in the post-build plugin order. (JENKINS-7877)
Added optional call to "git remote prune" to prune obsolete local branches before build. (JENKINS-7831)

Version 1.1 (September 21, 2010)

Added ability for GitPublisher to only push if build succeeds. (JENKINS-7176)
Fixed major bug with submodule behavior - making sure we don't try to fetch submodules until we've finished the initial clone. (JENKINS-7258)
"Clean after checkout" wasn't invoked when pre-build merges were enabled. (JENKINS-7276)
Form validation was missing for the GitPublisher tag and branch names, and an empty value was allowed for GitPublisher target repositories, leading to confusion. (JENKINS-7277)
"Clean before build" will now run in submodules as well as root. (JENKINS-7376)
When polling, Hudson-configured environment variables were not being used. (JENKINS-7411)
Modifications to BuildData to deal with Hudson no longer serializing null keys. (JENKINS-7446)
Support for --recursive option to submodule commands. (JENKINS-6258)

Version 1.0.1 (August 9, 2010)

Fixed submodules support - was broken by JENKINS-6902 fix. (JENKINS-7141)
Switched "Recent Changes" list for a project to count changes per build, rather than using revision as if it were a number. (JENKINS-7154)
Stopped putting problematic slash at end of GitWeb URL. (JENKINS-7020)

Version 1.0 (July 29, 2010)

Added support for Github as a repository browser.
Added support for optionally putting source in a subdirectory of the workspace (JENKINS-6357)
If all repository fetches fail, fail the build. (JENKINS-6902)
Improved logging of git command execution errors (JENKINS-6330)
Basic support for excluded regions and excluded users in polling added (JENKINS-4556)
Support for optionally checking out to a local branch, rather than detached HEAD (JENKINS-6856)
Revamped GitPublisher to allow for pushing tags to remotes and pushing to remote branches, as well as existing push of merge results. (JENKINS-5371)

Version 0.9.2 (June 22, 2010)

Fixed major bug in BuildChooser default selection and serialization (JENKINS-6827)

Version 0.9.1 (June 22, 2010)

Dramatic improvement in changelog generation, thanks to a switch to use "git whatchanged" (JENKINS-6781)

Version 0.9 (June 17, 2010)

Improved support for BuildChooser as an extension point - other plugins can now implement their own BuildChoosers and have them automatically show up as an option in Git configuration when installed.
Options added for wiping out the workspace before the build begins (this option may be removed), and for using commit authors as the Hudson changelog entry author, rather than the committers, the default behavior.

Version 0.8.2

Support for Gerrit plugin.
Support for different build choosers.

Version 0.7.3

Fixed JENKINS-2931, git tag freezing job execution (jbq)
Improve log messages (jbq)
Use build listener to report messages when pushing tags to origin (jbq)
Fixed JENKINS-2762, fail to clone a repository on Windows (jbq)

Version 0.5

Fix git plugin which was very broken when running on a remote server (magnayn)
Fix NPE in GitChangeLogParser upon project's first build (jbq)
Change workspace to a FilePath in GitAPI (jbq)
Use git rev-list once instead of invoking git rev-parse indefinitely to find last build, see JENKINS-2469: GIT plugin very slow (jbq)
Handle null-value of the repositories field to ensure backwards-compatibility with version 0.3,
ie when the project configuration is missing the <repositories/> XML element (jbq)
Improve error handling in revParse() (jbq)
Fix handling of the "branch" configuration parameter (jbq)
Improve tag handling, use show-ref instead of rev-parse to resolve the tag reference (jbq)
Fix JENKINS-2675, Git fails on remote slaves (jbq)

Version 0.4 (never released)

Allow multiple GIT repositories to be specified (magnayn)
Allow submodule configurations to be generated on the fly (magnayn)
Avoid infinite loops when git doesn't contains tags (david_calavera)
Don't do a log of the entire branch if it's never been built (magnayn)

Version 0.3

Add support for pre-build branch merges

Version 0.2

Improve handling of git repositories (use local tags to identify up to date versions rather than the wc HEAD)
Don't have to specify a branch, in which case all branches are examined for changes and built
Includes a publisher which can be used to push build success/failure tags back up to the upstream repository

Version 0.1

Initial Release

Allow extension to require workspace for polling (JENKINS-19001)

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