don t fail jenkins build if execute shell fails

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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

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Jenkins is executing shell build steps using /bin/sh -xe by default. -x means to print every command executed. -e means to exit with failure if any of the commands in the script failed.

So I think what happened in your case is your git command exit with 1, and because of the default -e param, the shell picks up the non-0 exit code, ignores the rest of the script and marks the step as a failure. We can confirm this if you can post your build step script here.

If that's the case, you can try to put #!/bin/sh so that the script will be executed without option; or do a set +e or anything similar on top of the build step to override this behavior.

Edited: Another thing to note is that, if the last command in your shell script returns non-0 code, the whole build step will still be marked as fail even with this setup. In this case, you can simply put a true command at the end to avoid that.

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If you put this commands into shell block   false true   your build will be marked as fail   at least 1 non-zero exit code    so you can add  set  e  to ignore it   set  e false true   will not fail  However  this will fail even with the  set  e  in place   set  e false   because the last shell command must exit with 0

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You can use the Text-finder Plugin  It will allow you to check the output console for an expression of your choice then mark the build as Unstable

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For multiple shell commands  I ignores the failures by adding    set  e commands true

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Jenkins determines the success failure of a step by the return value of the step   For the case of a shell  it should be the return of the last value   For both Windows CMD and  POSIX  Bash shells  you should be able to set the return value manually by using exit 0 as the last command

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To stop further execution when command fails   command    exit 0  To continue execution when command fails   command    true

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On the  more general  question in title - to prevent Jenkins from failing you can prevent it from seeing exit code 1  Example for ping   bash -c  ping 1 2 3 9999 -c 1  exit 0    And now you can e g  get output of ping   output  bash -c  ping 1 2 3 9999 -c 1  exit 0     Of course instead of ping     You can use any command s  - including git commit

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https   jenkins io doc pipeline steps workflow-durable-task-step  sh-shell-script  if you include a returnStatus  true property  then the shell return is ignored

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This answer is correct  but it doesn t specify the    exit 0 or    true goes inside the shell command  Here s a more complete example  sh  quot adb uninstall com example app    true quot   The above will work  but the following will fail  sh  quot adb uninstall com example app quot     true  Perhaps it s obvious to others  but I wasted a lot of time before I realized this

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Another one answer with some tips  can be helpful for somebody   remember to separate your commands with the following rule   command1  amp  amp  command2 - means  that command2 will be executed  only if command1 success  command1   command2  - means  that command 2 will be executed despite on result of command1  for example   String run tests   sh script   set  e  amp  amp  cd   development tests   amp  amp  gmake test  set -e echo 0    returnStdout  true  trim   println run tests    will be executed successfully with set -e and echo 0 commands if gmake test failed  your tests failed   while the following code snipped   String run tests   sh script   set  e  amp  amp  cd   development tests   amp  amp  gmake test  amp  amp  set -e  amp  amp  echo 0    returnStdout  true  trim   println run tests    a bit wrong and commands set -e and echo 0 in amp  amp  gmake test  amp  amp  set -e  amp  amp  echo 0 will be skipped  with the println run tests statement  because failed gmake test will abort the jenkins build  As workaround you can switch to returnStatus true  but then you will miss the output from your command

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I was able to get this working using the answer found here   How to git commit nothing without an error   git diff --quiet --exit-code --cached    git commit -m  bla

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There is another smooth way to tell Jenkins not to fail   You can isolate your commit in a build step and set the shell to not fail   set  e git commit -m  Bla   set -e

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If there is nothing to push git returns exit status 1  Execute shell build step is marked as failed respectively  You can use OR statement     double pipe    git commit -m  some messasge     echo  Commit failed  There is probably nothing to commit     That means  execute second argument if first failed  returned exit status   0   Second command always returns 0  When there is nothing to push  exit status 1 -  execute second command  echo will return 0 and build step continues   To mark build as unstable you can use post-build step Jenkins Text Finder  It can go through console output  match pattern  your echo  and mark build as unstable

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The following works for mercurial by only committing if there are changes   So the build only fails if the commit fails   hg id   grep        exit 0 hg commit -m  scheduled commit

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