'checkout scm' does not work when ran in pipeline script

[pellet]

I'm trying to execute a script from inside jenkins jack, the script runs ok on jenkins itself, but when I try inside of vscode I get:

ERROR: ‘checkout scm’ is only available when using “Multibranch Pipeline” or “Pipeline script from SCM” Any ideas how to fix this?

[pellet]

I figured out how to get around this.. just had to use the jenkins snippet generator to generate some groovy code for checking out the repository, it ended up looking a bit like this: checkout([ $class: 'GitSCM', branches: [[name: '*/develop']], doGenerateSubmoduleConfigurations: false, extensions: [[ $class: 'SubmoduleOption', depth: 1, disableSubmodules: false, parentCredentials: true, recursiveSubmodules: true, reference: '', shallow: true, trackingSubmodules: false], [$class: 'GitLFSPull']], submoduleCfg: [], userRemoteConfigs: [[ credentialsId: '$creds', url: '$repo']]]);

[medguywalker]

Pretty Print:

because after a long day of Jenkins, anything helps. @pellet - thank you btw, I had to remove [$class: 'GitLFSPull'] to make this work but works perfect

checkout([ 
  $class: 'GitSCM', 
  branches: [[name: '*/develop']], 
  doGenerateSubmoduleConfigurations: false, 
  extensions: [
    [ 
      $class: 'SubmoduleOption', 
      depth: 1, 
      disableSubmodules: false, 
      parentCredentials: true, 
      recursiveSubmodules: true, 
      reference: '', 
      shallow: true, 
      trackingSubmodules: false
    ], 
    [$class: 'GitLFSPull']
  ], 
  submoduleCfg: [], 
  userRemoteConfigs: [[ credentialsId: '$creds', url: '$repo']]
]);

[ni-dschiller]

Where did you place the checkout method or how did you use it ?

[ogtlimited]

Where did you place the checkout method or how did you use it ?

very important question. because I am attempting to use but not even getting any output

[pellet]

Try using the jenkins snippet generator as I had mentioned above, it may help with you debugging the checkout function.

[medguywalker]

@ni-dschiller @ogtlimited - if been wrecked with work but here is an update, paying it forward @pellet - note: the original solution didn't handle git tags well but I hacked on it a bit and this is running smooth for me, thanks again

Declarative Pipeline Example - https://gist.github.com/medguywalker/8816de7a98ddd437011677c239d65cf7 Scripted Pipeline Example - https://gist.github.com/medguywalker/e2beac3b352b0cd939f7c7b4c95a7b08