Trigger a Travis-CI rebuild without pushing a commit

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Using Travis-CI  is it possible to trigger a rebuild without pushing a new commit to GitHub   Use case  A build fails due to an externality  The source is actually correct  It would build OK and pass if simply re-run   For instance  an apt-get fails due to a package server being down  but the server is back up again  However the build status is  stuck  at  failed  until a new commit is pushed   Is there some way to nudge Travis-CI to do another build  other than pushing a  dummy  commit

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I know you said without pushing a commit, but something that is handy, if you are working on a branch other than master, is to commit an empty commit.

git commit --allow-empty -m "Trigger"

You can rebase in the end and remove squash/remove the empty commits and works across all git hooks :)

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Here s what worked for me to trigger a rebuild on a PR that Dependabot had opened  but failed due to errors in  travis yml    Close the PR Wait for Dependabot to comment   OK  I won t notify you again about this release  but will get in touch when a new version is available     It will remove its branch  Restore the branch Dependabot removed  something like dependabot cargo tempfile-3 0 4   Open the PR again

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You can do this using the Travis CLI  As described in the documentation  first install the CLI tool  then   travis login --org --auto travis token   You can keep this token in an environment variable TRAVIS TOKEN  as long as the file you keep it in is not version-controlled somewhere public   I use this function to submit triggers   function travis trigger          local org  1  amp  amp  shift      local repo  1  amp  amp  shift      local branch   1 -master   amp  amp  shift       body                   request                       branch        branch                                        curl -s -X POST             -H  Content-Type  application json              -H  Accept  application json              -H  Travis-API-Version  3              -H  Authorization  token  TRAVIS TOKEN              -d   body               https   api travis-ci org repo   org  2F  repo  requests

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Travis now offers a way to trigger a  custom  build from their web UI   Look for the  More Options  menu button on the right side near the top of your project s page     You ll then be presented with a dialog box in which you can choose the branch and customize the configuration     At the time I m writing this it is in beta  and appears to be slightly buggy  but I expect they ll get the problems ironed out soon

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If you have new project on GitHub which has  travis yml  but was never tested  you can run tests without commit this way    enable testing in Travis CI setings open project page on GitHub open settings -  webhooks and services find Travis CI in services and press edit button  press  Test service

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sometimes it happens that server do made some mistakes   try log out sign in and everything might be right then   Yes it happened this afternoon to me

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I just triggered the tests on a pull request to be re-run by clicking  update branch  here

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I have found another way of forcing re-run CI builds and other triggers    Run git commit --amend --no-edit without any changes  This will recreate the last commit in the current branch  git push --force-with-lease origin pr-branch

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I should mention here that we now have a means of triggering a new build on the web  See https   blog travis-ci com 2017-08-24-trigger-custom-build for details   TL DR Click on  More options   and choose  Trigger build

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Please make sure to Log In to Travis first  The rebuild button doesn t appear until you re logged in  I know this is obvious  but someone just tripped on it as well  -

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If you install the Travis CI Client you can use travis restart  lt job  gt  to manually re-run a build from the console  You can find the last job  for a branch using travis show  lt branch gt   travis show master travis restart 48  use Job number without  1 travis logs master     UPDATE  Sadly it looks like this doesn t start a new build using the latest commit  but instead just restarts a previous build using the previous state of the repo

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Simlpy close and re-open the PR if you do not have the write access

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If you open the Settings tab for the repository on GitHub  click on Integrations  amp  services  find Travis CI and click Edit  you should see a Test Service button   This will trigger a build

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If you have write access to the repo  On the build s detail screen  there is a button   Restart Build  Also under  More Options  there is a trigger build menu item   Note  Browser extensions like Ghostery may prevent the restart button from being displayed  Try disabling the extension or white-listing Travis CI   Note2  If  travis yml configuration has changed in the upstream  clicking rebuild button will run travis with old configuration  To apply upstream changes for travis configuration one has to add commit to PR or to close   reopen it  If you ve sent a pull request  You can close the PR then open it again  This will trigger a new build    Restart Build     Trigger Build

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If the build never occurred  perhaps you didn t get the Pull-Request build switch set to on in time   you can mark the Pull Request on Github as closed then mark it as opened and a new build will be triggered

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Log in to Travis and go to the build page  You will see a  Restart Build  button on the top-right corner  next to the gear icon     Note  you need to have write access to the linked GitHub repo for this to work

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