Jenkins – Changing Jenkins build number

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Is there a way to change the build number that is sent via email after a job completes? The problem is that are product builds are NOT being done by Jenkins, so we want to be able to get the build number(ie. from a text file) and update the build number in Jenkins to match it. I have tried to set the build number:

set BUILD_NUMBER=45

But the email is still showing the build number that Jenkins originally set.

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If you have access to the script console (Manage Jenkins -> Script Console), then you can do this following:

Jenkins.instance.getItemByFullName("YourJobName").updateNextBuildNumber(45)

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Git – How to make Jenkins CI with Git trigger on pushes to master

As already noted by gezzed in his comment, meanwhile there is a good solution (described in Polling must die: triggering Jenkins builds from a Git hook):

Set the Jenkins job's build trigger to Poll SCM, but do not specify a schedule.

Create a GitHub post-receive trigger to notify the URL

http://yourserver/jenkins/git/notifyCommit?url=<URL of the Git repository>?token=<get token from git to build remotely>

This will trigger all builds that poll the specified Git repository.
However, polling actually checks whether anything has been pushed to the used branch.

It works perfectly.

Jenkins/Hudson – accessing the current build number

BUILD_NUMBER is the current build number. You can use it in the command you execute for the job, or just use it in the script your job executes.

See the Jenkins documentation for the full list of available environment variables. The list is also available from within your Jenkins instance at http://hostname/jenkins/env-vars.html.

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Git – How to make Jenkins CI with Git trigger on pushes to master

Jenkins/Hudson – accessing the current build number

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