I am using Jenkins GitHub pull request builder plugin for running my unit tests when a pull request is made vis a vis a web hook. For the build step, I need to know the name of the branch that is being merged in (e.g. I need develop branch if merging that into master branch). Is there a way to get access to this in the Jenkins execute shell? Thanks,
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The plugin makes some very useful environment variables available.
ghprbActualCommit
ghprbActualCommitAuthor
ghprbActualCommitAuthorEmail
ghprbPullDescription
ghprbPullId
ghprbPullLink
ghprbPullTitle
ghprbSourceBranch
ghprbTargetBranch
sha1
You'll want to use $ghprbSourceBranch
to get the value of the branch being built somewhere else in your script.