[JENKINS-64389] Multibranch GitHub Pipeline - Branches get wiped out randomly

I maintain a multibranch GitHub pipeline.

There is a weird problem that occurs pretty rarely, but had already occurred enough times to become an inconvenience for us.

At certain times, a certain branch/multiple branches/all branches in the pipeline would get wiped out, meaning, they would appear as though they were just discovered and all of the job history would get removed.

This is pretty inconvenient because 

1. we need past job history


2. the build number gets reset, so I have manually set it to that of the latest build, otherwise, the build would fail because of version number conflict.

My intuition is that it could be a momentary problem with GitHub that causes it to return partial information and the GitHub plugin doesn't handle it properly, but I don't have any evidence to support that.

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Originally reported by arixmf, imported from: Multibranch GitHub Pipeline - Branches get wiped out randomly

• status: Open
  
• priority: Major
  
• component(s): github-api-plugin, github-branch-source-plugin
  
• resolution: Unresolved
  
• votes: 1
  
• watchers: 2
  
• imported: 2025-12-02
  

Raw content of original issue

I maintain a multibranch GitHub pipeline.


There is a weird problem that occurs pretty rarely, but had already occurred enough times to become an inconvenience for us.


At certain times, a certain branch/multiple branches/all branches in the pipeline would get wiped out, meaning, they would appear as though they were just discovered and all of the job history would get removed.


This is pretty inconvenient because 



	
we need past job history

	
the build number gets reset, so I have manually set it to that of the latest build, otherwise, the build would fail because of version number conflict.



My intuition is that it could be a momentary problem with GitHub that causes it to return partial information and the GitHub plugin doesn't handle it properly, but I don't have any evidence to support that.

• environment: Jenkins 2.268


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