This plugin allows the use of URLs as an SCM pluginThis is an SCM plugin for Hudson. While URLs are not actually a proper SCM, the two main behaviors of an SCM are supported - checkout and polling. Polling is accomplished by checking the last-modified property of the URL. Checkout is accomplished by copying the content of the URL into the workspace as a file. The file is given the same name as the final filename component of the URL. URLs without a filename component cannot be used at this time.
This does duplicate some of what the URL Trigger plugin does.
Benefits this plugin over the URL Trigger are:
1. You can choose your own polling schedule via the SCM Polling trigger.
2. Less resource intensive polling mechanism, since checking last-modified requires few bytes to transfer, regardless of the amount of data in the URL.
Benefits of URL Trigger over this plugin:
1. Hudson only supports one SCM plugin per project. If you want to trigger an SCM checkout via a URL, then URL Trigger is a better choice.
2. The last-modified property of a URL is not the right trigger for your builds, instead you need the content of the URL to change to trigger a build.
Plugin Information
| Plugin ID |
URLSCM |
| Latest Release |
1.4 |
| Latest Release Date |
Jun 24, 2008 |
| Changes in Latest Release |
via Fisheye |
| Maintainer(s) |
n/a (java.net id: mdonohue) |
| Issue Tracking |
Open Issues |
