jenkins configs to github

.gitignore

#
# The following ignores...
# Miscellaneous Jenkins litter
*.log
*.tmp
*.old
*.bak
*.jar
*.json

# Generated Jenkins state
/.owner
/secret.key
/queue.xml
/fingerprints/
/shelvedProjects/
/updates/

# Tools that Jenkins manages
/tools/

# Extracted plugins
plugins/

# monitoring plugin files
monitoring/

# Job state
builds/
workspace/
lastStable
lastSuccessful
nextBuildNumber
modules/

Jenkins2Github

# Storing jenkins Configs in Github

* create a .gitignore file in your $JENKINS_HOME with the following
** this may need tuning to your liking 
** ie storing artifacts etc
* setup some ENV variables for the user that jenkins runs under.
** I add the following to /home/jenkins/.bashrc
** and restart jenkins

    export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="Sir jenkins"
    export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="sj@example.com"
    export GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="Sir Jenkins"
    export GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="sj@example.com"

* create a new Jenkins periodic job with this bash script.

JenkinsBashJob

#!/bin/bash

# Jenkins Configuraitons Directory
cd $JENKINS_HOME

# Add any new files
git add .

# mark as deleted anything that's been, well, deleted
to_remove=`git status | grep "deleted" | awk '{print $3}'`
#
if [ -n "$to_remove" ]; then
    git rm --ignore-unmatch $to_remove
fi

git commit -am "Automated Jenkins commit"
git push -q origin master