Clean up working directories after pipeline runs

Issue Type

• Feature enhancement

Summary

When a build is finished, we should clean up the working directory to save disk space.

Basic environment details

• Go Version: 19.11.0

Expected Results

When a build is finished and artifacts have been uploaded, the working directory of the pipeline should be cleaned up (git clean -xdf).

Actual Results

The working directory is not being cleaned up. When running many different builds on one agent, we run out of disk space quickly.

Possible Fix

Add an option to the pipeline configuration that runs git clean -xdf or similar after a pipeline has run. We already do this before each pipeline run to ensure a clean slate.

We can’t easily add a generic cleanup step as a pipeline tasks because it breaks uploading artifacts (such as test reports) to the GoCD server (they will be cleaned up before they can be uploaded).

[drewinglis]

+1 to this issue. We are manually cleaning up the working directory in several of our pipelines to save disk space. (We also have >500 pipelines, and it isn’t sufficient to just use “clean working directory”.)

[drewinglis]

Issue still exists as described.