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Is there a way to show the Jenkins build status on my project's GitHub Readme.md?
I use Jenkins to run continuous integration builds. After each commit it ensures that everything compiles, as well as executes unit and integration tests, before finally producing documentation and release bundles.
There's still a risk of inadvertently committing something that breaks the build. It would be good for users visiting the GitHub project page to know the current master is in that state.
Update Apr. 2021: there are a few tools created by the community that can do this for you:
Note: if you're trying to download a large number of files, you may need to provide a token to these tools to avoid rate limiting.
Original (manual) approach: Checking out an individual directory is not supported by git natively, but Github can do this via SVN. If you checkout your code with subversion, Github will essentially convert the repo from git to subversion on the backend, then serve up the requested directory.
Here's how you can use this feature to download a specific folder. I'll use the popular javascript library lodash as an example.
Navigate to the folder you want to download. Let's download /test from master branch.
Modify the URL for subversion. Replace tree/master with trunk.
https://github.com/lodash/lodash/tree/master/test ➜
https://github.com/lodash/lodash/trunk/test
Download the folder. Go to the command line and grab the folder with SVN.
svn checkout https://github.com/lodash/lodash/trunk/test
You might not see any activity immediately because Github takes up to 30 seconds to convert larger repositories, so be patient.
Full URL format explanation:
- If you're interested in
masterbranch, usetrunkinstead. So the full path istrunk/foldername- If you're interested in
foobranch, usebranches/fooinstead. The full path looks likebranches/foo/foldername- Protip: You can use
svn lsto see available tags and branches before downloading if you wish
That's all! Github supports more subversion features as well, including support for committing and pushing changes.
By far the easiest way is to log in GitHub account:
yourUsername/yourRepository for example mbaric/zpropertyz.gitHubUsername/nameOfTheRepository and click on the button below which says: I understand the consequences, delete the repository2020-01-15 - Here are images. Enjoy.
Best Answer
Ok, here's how you can set up Jenkins to set GitHub build statuses. This assumes you've already got Jenkins with the GitHub plugin configured to do builds on every push.
Go to GitHub, log in, go to Settings, Personal access tokens, click on Generate new token.
Check repo:status (I'm not sure this is necessary, but I did it, and it worked for me).
Generate the token, copy it.
Make sure the GitHub user you're going to use is a repository collaborator (for private repos) or is a member of a team with push and pull access (for organization repos) to the repositories you want to build.
Go to your Jenkins server, log in.
Under GitHub Web Hook select Let Jenkins auto-manage hook URLs, then specify your GitHub username and the OAuth token you got in step 3.
Verify that it works with the Test Credential button. Save the settings.
Find the Jenkins job and add Set build status on GitHub commit to the post-build steps
That's it. Now do a test build and go to GitHub repository to see if it worked. Click on Branches in the main repository page to see build statuses.
You should see green checkmarks: