When I say Jump, Jenkins asks how high

... if you want even faster feedback than waiting for Jenkins to poll your stuff

- In project config within Jenkins. Check: "Trigger builds remotely", add a token, like "foobar" into the textbox.

- SSH to your SVN-server and find the project home within svnroot.


- Here is my post-commit hook:
finn@subversionserver:/var/svnroot/myproject/hooks$ cat post-commit

#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/wget -O /dev/null --auth-no-challenge --http-user=finn --http-password=JENKINS_PASSWORD http://jenkinsserver:8080/view/Finn/job/myproject/build?token=foobar

If you don't have authentication on Jenkins, remove --http-user and --http-password

uhm, there is a ~/.ssh/config file?

How did I miss this for all these years I've used ssh?

~/.ssh/config lets you type 

#ssh home
instead of
#finn@84.215.xxx.xxx -p 10001

Here is the ~/.ssh/config
Host home
HostName 84.215.xxx.xxx
Port 10001
User finn

Combine this passwordless ssh with
ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub finn@84.215.xxx.xxx
and phoning home is pretty effortless.

... another one of those note-to-future-Finn (tm) posts which I'll copy and paste stuff from.