As part of my build process, I am running a git commit as an execute shell step. However, if there are no changes in the workspace, Jenkins is failing the build. This is because git is returning an error code when there are no changes to commit. I'd like to either abort the build, or just mark it as unstable if this is the case. Any ideas?
Linux – don’t fail jenkins build if execute shell fails
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Modern Jenkins versions (since 2.26, October 2016) solved this: it's just an advanced option for the Execute shell build step!
You can just choose and set an arbitrary exit value; if it matches, the build will be unstable. Just pick a value which is unlikely to be launched by a real process in your build.
Very easily done with Post build task plugin.
Best Answer
To stop further execution when command fails:
command || exit 0To continue execution when command fails:
command || true