Give a set of key/value (one variable per line): KEY=VALUE
.
All the properties name will be accessible as environment variables by their names. You can use or override the properties specified in the above properties file.
These environment variables (only these) will be available in the Job environment independently
from the build. There are following use-cases: SCM polling, validation of fields depending on environment
variables (e.g. http://server/svn/$REPO
), custom workspace management, etc.
Limitations: The field may contain variables, which are not resolvable outside the Build context
(e.g. BUILD_NUMBER
, WORKSPACE
, etc.), the plugin simply won't interpret these variables.
This behavior should be taken into account by job editors. For example, with VAR1=${WORKSPACE}
it
will receive the string ${WORKSPACE}
.