[JENKINS-20654] Empty folders are not copied to the slave

When copying files to the slaves the slave-setup-plugin misses directories that do not contain ordinary files.

The reason seems to be that the plugin uses the copyRecursiveTo method of the FilePath class to copy the files (Line 92 in SetupDeployer). The implementation of this method only acts upon files and then creates parent directories (Line 1895-1900 of FilePath). This results in creating only directories that contain directly or indirectly files.

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Originally reported by cfrommeyer, imported from: Empty folders are not copied to the slave

• status: Open
  
• priority: Minor
  
• component(s): slave-setup-plugin
  
• resolution: Unresolved
  
• votes: 0
  
• watchers: 3
  
• imported: 20251216-225446
  

Raw content of original issue

When copying files to the slaves the slave-setup-plugin misses directories that do not contain ordinary files.


The reason seems to be that the plugin uses the copyRecursiveTo method of the FilePath class to copy the files (Line 92 in SetupDeployer). The implementation of this method only acts upon files and then creates parent directories (Line 1895-1900 of FilePath). This results in creating only directories that contain directly or indirectly files.

• environment: Slave-Setup-Plugin 1.6; Jenkins 1.537; Linux; JBoss 7.1