Require the logic for downloading source code from repo via Jenkins

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Hello all,
I m new to Jenkins and am creating a job to clone the source code over ssh. I have defined all the necessary credentials and would like to do a git clone using JenkinsFile.

I have 2 repositories and would like to clone one after the another. How can I

  1. do that using “bat” statement / command?
  2. download the source code in a specific directory.

I don’t want to use Pipeline with SCM

Regards
Pratik

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The git plugin documentation includes an example that says:

checkout scmGit(
    branches: [[name: 'v4.11.x']],
    userRemoteConfigs: [[credentialsId:  'my-ssh-private-key-id',
        url: 'ssh://github.com/jenkinsci/git-plugin.git']])

In a fully working declarative Pipeline to checkout one copy into my-dir-1 and another copy into my-dir-2, that would be:

pipeline {
    agent any
    stages {
        stage('Checkout') {
            steps {
                dir('my-dir-1') {
                checkout scmGit(
                    branches: [[name: 'v4.11.x']],
                    userRemoteConfigs: [[credentialsId:  'my-ssh-private-key-id',
                        url: 'ssh://github.com/jenkinsci/git-plugin.git']])
                }
                dir('my-dir-2') {
                checkout scmGit(
                    branches: [[name: 'v4.11.x']],
                    userRemoteConfigs: [[credentialsId:  'my-ssh-private-key-id',
                        url: 'ssh://github.com/jenkinsci/git-plugin.git']])
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

If you must use a bat command to perform the checkout from an ssh repository, then you’ll need to use the ssh-agent plugin to wrap the call to your bat command in a block that will provide the ssh credentials for command line git.

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Hello Mark,

Thank you very much for yoru help.

I tried the same thing before posting this thread. I got an error :
“checkout” is not recognized as an internal or external command

I am using something like this:
bat “”"
checkout scmGit…
…
“”"
Will still try again and let you know.

Regards
Pratik

4

The message is correct. The checkout command is a Jenkins Pipeline command, not a Windows batch file command.

5

Hello Mark,

Kindly accept my apologies for the delay in reply.

After it failed, I re - tried by removing the “bat” command and tried and it worked like a charm.

With this I learnt that “checkout” is a Jenkins pipeline command and not a batch command.

Thank you very much again for your help.

Regards
Pratik

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Thanks a lot for your feedback. :+1: