This seems too trivial to ask, but I could not find an answer:
In a Multibranch Pipeline project (controlled by Jenkinsfile): How can I skip previous builds on a branch, if there is a newer one and only build the latest commit and/or the tip of the branch?
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Jenkins built-in workflow-job-plugin has disableConcurrentBuilds directive that takes one boolean parameter named abortPrevious. The parameter is undocumented in the official Jenkins documentation but is mentioned in the PR to the workflow-job-plugin and available since version 2.42 of the aforementioned plugin.
Having that in mind the feature to cancel previous builds can be enabled in Jenkins by:
using Scripted Pipeline:
node {
properties([
disableConcurrentBuilds(abortPrevious: true)
])
[...]
}
using Declarative Pipeline:
pipeline {
agent any
options {
disableConcurrentBuilds(abortPrevious: true)
}
stages { ... }
}