Is there a way to keep Hudson / Jenkins configuration files in source control?

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I am new to Hudson / Jenkins and was wondering if there is a way to check in Hudson's configuration files to source control.

Ideally I want to be able to click some button in the UI that says 'save configuration' and have the Hudson configuration files checked in to source control.

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Most helpful Answer

There is a plugin called SCM Sync configuration plugin.

Original Answer

Have a look at my answer to a similar question. The basic idea is to use the filesystem-scm-plugin to detect changes to the xml-files. Your second part would be committing the changes to SVN.

EDIT: If you find a way to determine the user for a change, let us know.

EDIT 2011-01-10 Meanwhile there is a new plugin: SCM Sync configuration plugin. Currently it only works with subversion and git, but support for more repositories is planned. I am using it since version 0.0.3 and it worked good so far.

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To manually manage your configuration with Git, the following .gitignore file may be helpful.

# Miscellaneous Hudson litter
*.log
*.tmp
*.old
*.bak
*.jar
*.json

# Generated Hudson state
/.owner
/secret.key
/queue.xml
/fingerprints/
/shelvedProjects/
/updates/

# Tools that Hudson manages
/tools/

# Extracted plugins
/plugins/*/

# Job state
builds/
workspace/
lastStable
lastSuccessful
nextBuildNumber

See this GitHub Gist and this blog post for more details.

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