Jenkinsfile get current tag

Question

Is there a way to get the current tag ( or null if there is none ) for a job in a Jenkinsfile? The background is that I only want to build some artifacts ( android APKs ) when t

Answer 1

best way from my site is:

git tag --sort=-creatordate | head -n 1

with:

latestTag = sh(returnStdout:  true, script: "git tag --sort=-creatordate | head -n 1").trim()

Than you can handle with simple regex, for prefix/suffix/version_number what is to do with the tag.

other solution:

git describe --tags --abbrev=0

of course this is the current/latest tag in git. Independent from writing.

sh(returnStdout: true, script: "git describe --tags --abbrev=0").trim()