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In /usr/local/hiveptest/public/ you can copy existing profile property-file, and update the branch property. Then in Jenkins, copy an existing branch build, and in the build config modify the profile argument in the Hive Ptest2 Webserver call to (it will be like: "java ... org.apache.hive.ptest.api.client.PTestClient --profile trunk-mr1") to point to the new profile.
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