Jenkins Checking out a fresh workspace

To restart Jenkins manually, you can use either of the following commands (by entering their URL in a browser):

(jenkins_url)/safeRestart - Allows all running jobs to complete. New jobs will remain in the queue to run after the restart is complete.

(jenkins_url)/restart - Forces a restart without waiting for builds to complete.

The problem is that Jenkins uses a parent job which spawn jobs for each target. Unfortunately it also does a checkout to the jobs workspace.

If you are running these target specific jobs on different slaves/machines you can set the target checkout directory to be the same as the parent workspace directory. So effectively sharing the workspace on that node instead of duplicating it.

In the Advanced Project Options section, click the Advanced button to expand the section. Check Use custom workspace and use "." for the Directory for sub-builds. If not specified it defaults to something like /target/<target1>

Now instead of checking out to workspace/target/<target1> it will only checkout to workspace/ on the different targets.