Recently we switched to Git as our Version Control System solution and I still like it. Coming from “(good) old” CVS we used Jenkins as CI server polling CVS for changes. Besides other nice features and advantages, Git also brings nice commit hooks (well, CVS also does but I finally got to use this nice feature).

Using the post-receive hook you can use your favorite scripting language to do some kick-ass checking when a git commit/push has been made. We first started to use a common approach for every repository and created the post-receive hook like this:

!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/curl --user USERNAME:PASS -s \

http://jenkinsci/job/PROJECTNAME/build?token=1qaz2wsx

Configure your Jenkins job to be able to “Trigger builds remotely” and use an authentication token (1qaz2wsx in this example).

Now two issues appear:

1. We need to change the PROJECTNAME for every single repository
2. In case of more projects/modules in one repository we can’t figure out what specific Jenkins job has to be run.

rodmidde-lan:confluence rodmidde$ git diff-tree --name-status HEAD
c299697bd62d89158fd7deb3ebd7d788a215f38d
M	digiArchief

changeSet=(`git diff-tree --name-status HEAD`)
for(( i=0; i<${#changeSet[@]}; i++))
do
  if [ ${changeSet[$i]} == "M" ]
  then
    projectToBuild=${changeSet[$i+1]}
    /usr/bin/curl --user USERMAME:PASS -s \

http://jenkinsci/job/$projectToBuild/build?token=1qzz2wsx

  fi
done