Jenkins Gerrit trigger on all branches except master

Question

I have a build in Jenkins triggered by Gerrit I would like to trigger on all branches except master. What regex should I use for this?

Check this out: https://github.com/jenkinsci/git-plugin/pull/45. Also more comments here: https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-7087. I don't understand enough to translate these comments into a solution, but if you could, it'd be great if you could type up an answer yourself for future users. — slackwing, Jun 17 '13 at 21:50
@acheong87 Unfortunately the solution you found only works if you are using the git plugin directly, I have the Choosing Strategy set to Gerrit Trigger so it will not work for me. — Kara, Jun 17 '13 at 22:39

score 29 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

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Using a negative lookahead worked for me:

^(?!.*master).*$

Should trigger on everything except master. Kudos to this questions answers.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

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answered Sep 10 '13 at 00:36

romanofski

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If entering this in the branches specifier in Jenkins, don't forget to prepend `:` to tell Jenkins this is a regex. – Mike Rylander Jun 08 '16 at 18:21

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 27 '18 at 14:12

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The following worked for me:

^(master.+|(?!master).*)$

This excludes master only. Not master_joda, for example.

It is also based on these answers.

answered Mar 27 '18 at 14:12

Aleksey Kasatkin

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