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The CloudBees Pull Request Builder for GitHub plugin lets you configure Jenkins to verify pull requests on a GitHub project and check the proposed changes validates Continuous Integration criteria set on your Jenkins instance.
The feature was introduced in CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise 14.11.
Development teams using GitHub rely on pull request mechanism for code-review before some changes are adopted and merged into the mainstream development branch. This is a very convenient process as GitHub provides a nice UI to discuss changes and annotate modified lines in code. Manual code review anyway can’t catch all possible mistakes, and may be a waste of time when the proposed changes has some negative impact on project that the Jenkins continuous integration job can detect. The Pull Request Builder for GitHub plugin takes advantage of GitHub APIs to get notified when a pull request is created / updated, and can trigger a build to automatically check the proposed changes. The build status is then reported on pull request, and reviewer can just ignore an invalid pull request, as the requester can check the log and fix his changes.
Setting up Pull Request Builder for GitHub
The Pull Request Tester plugin is available within the Update Center. The CloudBees Git Validated Merge Plugin is required, as Jenkins GitHub plugin.
For full setup automation, credentials have to be configured in Jenkins global settings. GitHub API authentication require to create an access token. We recommend you create a dedicated pseudo-user on GitHub to handle API interaction from Jenkins in GitHub, and have no interaction with actual developers profiles.
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Go to your GitHub settings page.
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In the left sidebar, click Personal Access Token.
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Click Generate new token.
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Give your token a descriptive name
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Select the scopes to grant to this token. Pull request tester plugin require permission to administer repository hooks and access repositories: repo, public_repo, admin:repo_hook, repo:status.
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Click Generate token.
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Copy the token to your clipboard. For security reasons, after you navigate off this page, no one will be able to see the token again
Configure your access token in Jenkins and validate GitHub API access.
You also can configure Jenkins so that it does not manage the web hook for you, but then you will have to ensure that the web hooks are well registered for all of your repositories.
Using
The CloudBees Pull Request Builder for GitHub plugin includes a trigger option for Jenkins jobs, "Build pull requests to the repository", which needs to be enabled. This option only makes sense if the job is building a project using a GitHub repository as SCM. Selecting this option automatically registers a webhook on GitHub so Jenkins get notified when pull requests are created/updated.
"Enable Git validated merge support" in the job configuration has to be enabled as well, even if you don’t use this feature by yourself, because Pull Request tester plugin relies on CloudBees Git Validated Merge Plugin.
As a pull request is opened on GitHub repository, Jenkins will trigger a build and report result in the GitHub UI as "commit status" (a note associated to the latest commit of the pull request). Any update to the pull request (new commit pushed, or amendment to existing commits in pull request) triggers another build and updates the commit status.
The merge process must be done manually by a member with admin permissions in that repository.
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