Polling ignores commits in certain paths in multibranch pipeline

Question

I have a multibranch pipeline with a project that I want to build only if there are changes in a specific directory.

I know that the Polling ignores commits in certain paths option can do exactly that but I can't find this option in the multibranch configuration.

Is this even possible for multibranch pipeline?

Answer 1

Theoretically, you can call the GitSCM class with an includedRegions path restriction in the checkout step (e.g. see here for the syntax).

However, this is not working with pipelines, as I just checked it last week. So unfortunately, Jenkins is really not well-suited for monorepos.