[JENKINS-60550] Determine if heavyweight or lightweight checkout was used for multibranch pipelines

Currently, SCMBinder will attempt to perform a lightweight checkout, falling back to heavyweight when that fails. However, there is no public way to tell which type of checkout was use.

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Originally reported by carroll, imported from: Determine if heavyweight or lightweight checkout was used for multibranch pipelines

• status: Open
  
• priority: Minor
  
• component(s): workflow-multibranch-plugin
  
• resolution: Unresolved
  
• votes: 0
  
• watchers: 1
  
• imported: 20251212-090250
  

Raw content of original issue

Currently, SCMBinder will attempt to perform a lightweight checkout, falling back to heavyweight when that fails.  However, there is no public way to tell which type of checkout was use.