[JENKINS-30339] Expand variables in Freestyle job 'local subdirectory' field

I wanted to see where, when and how I could make use of GIT_BRANCH in a job that tracks multiple branches. Branch specifier is set to 'origin/topic/*', which matches two branches - 'parallel_1' and 'parallel_2'. In the additional behaviors section, I specified '${GIT_BRANCH}' as local subdirectory for repo.

I start the job manually and it triggers two builds - one for each matching branch. However, my workspace contains two directories called '${GIT_BRANCH}' (from build #1 for parallel_1 branch) and 'parallel_1' (from build #2 for parallel_2 branch).

I would expect GIT_BRANCH to be used consistently - either correctly all the time or never.

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Originally reported by tba, imported from: Expand variables in Freestyle job 'local subdirectory' field

• status: Open
  
• priority: Major
  
• component(s): git-plugin
  
• resolution: Unresolved
  
• votes: 0
  
• watchers: 1
  
• imported: 2025-12-02
  

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I wanted to see where, when and how I could make use of GIT_BRANCH in a job that tracks multiple branches. Branch specifier is set to 'origin/topic/*', which matches two branches - 'parallel_1' and 'parallel_2'. In the additional behaviors section, I specified '${GIT_BRANCH}' as local subdirectory for repo.


I start the job manually and it triggers two builds - one for each matching branch. However, my workspace contains two directories called '${GIT_BRANCH}' (from build #1 for parallel_1 branch) and 'parallel_1' (from build #2 for parallel_2 branch).


I would expect GIT_BRANCH to be used consistently - either correctly all the time or never.

environment

```
Jenkins 1.609.3

GIT plugin 2.4.0

GIT client plugin 1.19.0
```