I created a Pipeline project to build a Git project based on it's tag.

node {
git branch: 'refs/tags/VMAccess-1.4.1.0', url: 'https://github.com/azure/azure-linux-extensions'
}

The console output contains the following data.

> git rev-parse refs/remotes/origin/refs/tags/VMAccess-1.4.1.0^

{commit} # timeout=10
> git rev-parse refs/remotes/origin/origin/refs/tags/VMAccess-1.4.1.0^{commit}

# timeout=10
> git rev-parse origin/refs/tags/VMAccess-1.4.1.0^

{commit} # timeout=10

The correct rev-parse should be refs/tags/VMAccess-1.4.1.0, but that value is never tried by the plugin. (The value refs/remotes/origin/refs/tags/VMAccess-1.4.1.0 may also be valid.) I tried to influence the refspec, but setting the refspec key in the git command, but this had no effect.

I create a Freestyle project, and set the branch to refs/tags/VMAccess-1.4.1.0. The project built successfully.

The console output contains the following data.

> git rev-parse refs/tags/VMAccess-1.4.1.0^{commit}

# timeout=10
> git rev-parse refs/remotes/origin/refs/tags/VMAccess-1.4.1.0^

{commit}

# timeout=10
Checking out Revision 97fb7b019946ef71f15e73881b761e4ba1933781 (refs/tags/VMAccess-1.4.1.0)