[falsedan]

> When you want to work with CD in a particular way.

I think that I, as the user of the project, should get to decide how I want to deploy my software. So, yes, I do want to CD things in a particular way: one that matches my developer's expectations and my business requirements.

> CD

Jenkins isn't a deployment tool. It can act like one, but this (rollback) is a classic example of how it's a build, not release, tool.

To address OP's complaint: we rebuild steps from the previous pipeline to perform a rollback, and we have all our deployment logic in a separate system which works with commit IDs, if the previous pipeline has been pushed out of the list of recent pipeline runs.

[mugsie]

> I think that I, as the user of the project, should get to decide how I want to deploy my software. So, yes, I do want to CD things in a particular way: one that matches my developer's expectations and my business requirements.

Sure - it definitely is. But we all have to do that within the limitations of the tools we use. Jenkins makes an assumption (in the default mode) of a continuously moving HEAD - which may or may not be what you want. It doesn't make Jenkins bad - it makes it not suitable for your use case.

FWIW - adapting to using a moving HEAD is not that hard - `git reset <old-tag> && git commit -a -m "Revert deploy <failed-tag> && git tag <failed-tag+1> && git push` - but I totally understand why people would not like to use that style. It is a personal / culture choice.