Auto Merging of Git Branches through Jenkins

Two Git branches can be merged and pushed to remote as a part of the build process. This is possible with Jenkins Git plugin with just 2-3 steps configuration. Lets see that in detail.

• Create/configure a job in Jenkins
• In Source code management configure the git repository and the integration branch.
• While merging Test4 branch into Test3 branch; integration branch is Test4 and the Branch to merge to is Test3

How to Restart Jenkins

• Login to the Jenkins server using powershell or Putty
• In order to check of the jenkins process is running or not; execute the below command; This will give you the process Id if it is running.

                        > ps -ef | grep jenkins

• Jenkins service can be started/stopped/restarted only as a root user. So change to the root user and do the action as below

                        > sudo su
                        > sudo service jenkins start

• If the service is not detected using this script; do the following

                       > /etc/init.d/jenkins start

• The above command will start your jenkins server. Now open the Jenkins web page in browser and check for the status.