Jenkins Gerrit trigger on all branches except master

Question

I have a build in Jenkins triggered by Gerrit I would like to trigger on all branches except master. What regex should I use for this?

Elise

Check this out: github.com/jenkinsci/git-plugin/pull/45. Also more comments here: issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-7087. I don't understand enough to translate these comments into a solution, but if you could, it'd be great if you could type up an answer yourself for future users. – Archenteron

@acheong87 Unfortunately the solution you found only works if you are using the git plugin directly, I have the Choosing Strategy set to Gerrit Trigger so it will not work for me. – Elise

Answer 1

Using a negative lookahead worked for me:

^(?!.*master).*$

Should trigger on everything except master. Kudos to this questions answers.

Akiko

If entering this in the branches specifier in Jenkins, don't forget to prepend : to tell Jenkins this is a regex. – Tonne

Answer 2

The following worked for me:

^(master.+|(?!master).*)$

This excludes master only. Not master_joda, for example.

It is also based on these answers.

Spinet