Category: Build Automation

I want to announce a new repository: ea-jenkins. ea-jenkins contains an example Jenkins build server configuration. This configuration can be imported into your own Jenkins build server to get you up and running quickly. I recommend forking this repository for your own development purposes. Importing the ea-jenkins Configuration To utilize this base config with Jenkins, …

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For most projects, I recommend that nightly builds start with a completely clean workspace. However, there are certain cases where cleaning is not feasible - repos including large artifacts (e.g. specific toolchains) or numerous git-lfs artifacts. You can destroy bandwidth and increase build time by re-downloading these files for every build. Using jenkins, you can …

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