How to change concurrent build path separator?

[Jason Swager]

When marking a job as able to run concurrently on the same node, Jenkins will append a @X (where X is the number of the concurrent build) to the normal workspace directory to get a new, unique workspace directory.  Normally, this is all fine and good, but we've encountered a couple tools that cannot handle a @ in the path name even though the operating system can.

Is there some way to change the @ character to something else?  Say maybe a double underscore (__) or something?

Thanks,

Jason 

[Jesse Glick-4]

On 10/31/2012 09:54 PM, Jason Swager wrote:
> Is there some way to change the @ character to something else?

Not an answer to your question, but I seem to recall another conversation (or JIRA ticket?) requesting a way to set a different basename. (You can already set a custom
workspace directory for a project but this then overrides the @nnn convention.)

[Simon Wiest]

Hi Jason,

you can change the separator - called 'combinator' in the Jenkins
sources - by setting a Java system property when launching Jenkins, e.g.

   java -Dhudson.slaves.WorkspaceList=§ -jar jenkins.war

The combinator defaults to "@" when this system property is unset. BTW,
from looking at the sources, the combinator does not have to be a single
character. It is defined in
https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/blob/master/core/src/main/java/hudson/slaves/WorkspaceList.java#L265 
.

Note that this is an undocumented feature and subject to change without
prior notice - so use it at your own risk ;o)

Cheers,
Simon.
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Jason Swager wrote (01.11.2012 02:54):

> When marking a job as able to run concurrently on the same node, Jenkins
> will append a @X (where X is the number of the concurrent build) to the
> normal workspace directory to get a new, unique workspace directory.
>   Normally, this is all fine and good, but we've encountered a couple
> tools that cannot handle a @ in the path name even though the operating
> system can.
>
> Is there some way to change the @ character to something else?  Say
> maybe a double underscore (__) or something?
> Thanks,
> Jason

[Jason Swager]

Thank you!  I'll give this a try.

On Friday, November 2, 2012 2:43:20 AM UTC-7, Simon Wiest wrote:

Hi Jason,

you can change the separator - called 'combinator' in the Jenkins
sources - by setting a Java system property when launching Jenkins, e.g.

   java -Dhudson.slaves.WorkspaceList=§ -jar jenkins.war

The combinator defaults to "@" when this system property is unset. BTW,
from looking at the sources, the combinator does not have to be a single
character. It is defined in
https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/blob/master/core/src/main/java/hudson/slaves/WorkspaceList.java#L265
.

Note that this is an undocumented feature and subject to change without
prior notice - so use it at your own risk ;o)

Cheers,
Simon.
--
Jason Swager wrote (01.11.2012 02:54):

> When marking a job as able to run concurrently on the same node, Jenkins
> will append a @X (where X is the number of the concurrent build) to the
> normal workspace directory to get a new, unique workspace directory.
>   Normally, this is all fine and good, but we've encountered a couple
> tools that cannot handle a @ in the path name even though the operating
> system can.
>
> Is there some way to change the @ character to something else?  Say
> maybe a double underscore (__) or something?
> Thanks,
> Jason