Jenkins Git plugin included regions not working

Question

I cannot get the \"included regions\" feature to work in Jenkins with the Git plugin. I want a job only to be built when there a changes in \"his\" directory. Example: the proje

Answer 1

For me it started working when checking "Force polling using workspace" under "Source-Code-Management - Additional Behaviours" in the job config. Smells like a bug - there are several open regarding the included/excluded regions feature of the git plugin.

EDIT: it stopped working after updating jenkins and the git plugin. The cause is probably:

https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-20607

I am thinking of moving to this method here