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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?

Kara
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    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. – Andrew Cheong Jun 17 '13 at 21:50
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    @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

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Using a negative lookahead worked for me:

^(?!.*master).*$

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

Community
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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. – Rylander Jun 08 '16 at 18:21
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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.

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