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Bug 363607

Summary:	Manual hudson build from git repo fails with "Nothing to do"
Product:	[Technology] Hudson	Reporter:	Greg Watson <g.watson>
Component:	GIT	Assignee:	Steve Christou <schristou88>
Status:	ASSIGNED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	alex.panchenko, daniel.paulat, denis.roy, gunnar, ivan.inozemtsev, jacek.pospychala, lidiam, mahi8843, mamacdon, nimi.sukumaran, s.buchner, steffen.pingel, webmaster, winston.prakash
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	373185

Description Greg Watson

2011-11-11 13:31:26 EST

I'm building from a git repo using maven. After a commit has been pushed to the repo, a manual build works fine. However if the repo has not changed since the last build, the build fails and there is a cryptic "Nothing to do" message. There needs to be a way to force a build, even if there is no change to the repo.

Here is the console output:

Started by user gwatson
Building remotely on hudson-slave1
Checkout:ptp-release / /opt/users/hudsonbuild/workspace/ptp-release - hudson.remoting.Channel@6e6b27a2:hudson-slave1
Using strategy: Default
Last Built Revision: Revision 3e5a6ab9bbd03d6e12ea88e9cf4d3bb30a4af82e (origin1/ptp_5_0)
Checkout:ptp-release / /opt/users/hudsonbuild/workspace/ptp-release - hudson.remoting.LocalChannel@8859e4
Fetching changes from the remote Git repository
Fetching upstream changes from git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/ptp/org.eclipse.ptp.git
Seen branch in repository origin1/master
Seen branch in repository origin1/ptp_1_0
Seen branch in repository origin1/ptp_1_1
Seen branch in repository origin1/ptp_2_0
Seen branch in repository origin1/ptp_2_1
Seen branch in repository origin1/ptp_3_0
Seen branch in repository origin1/ptp_4_0
Seen branch in repository origin1/ptp_4_1
Seen branch in repository origin1/ptp_5_0
Nothing to do
Checkout:photran / /opt/users/hudsonbuild/workspace/ptp-release/photran - hudson.remoting.LocalChannel@8859e4
Fetching changes from the remote Git repository
Fetching upstream changes from git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/ptp/org.eclipse.photran.git
Seen branch in repository origin/master
Seen branch in repository origin/photran_4_0
Seen branch in repository origin/photran_5_0
Seen branch in repository origin/ptp_4_0
Seen branch in repository origin/ptp_4_1
Seen branch in repository origin/ptp_5_0
Nothing to do
Archiving artifacts
Sending e-mails to: g.watson@computer.org
[DEBUG] Skipping watched dependency update for build: ptp-release #54 due to result: FAILURE
Finished: FAILURE

Comment 1 Dennis Huebner

2012-02-20 04:50:36 EST

I have exactly the same problem.
After I set up my job to checkout two git repositories I can't build if there are any changes.
So if the build is triggered by SCM all works fine if I trigger my build manually (e.g. for integration builds) build fails after the "Nothing to do" message.

Started by user dhubner
Building remotely on hudson-slave1
Checkout:Xtext-nightly-HEAD / /opt/users/hudsonbuild/workspace/Xtext-nightly-HEAD - hudson.remoting.Channel@22697409:hudson-slave1
Using strategy: Default
Last Built Revision: Revision 4805a48eb93dff22836ae54c8d1878e8de022343 (origin/master)
Checkout:org.eclipse.xtend.git / /opt/users/hudsonbuild/workspace/Xtext-nightly-HEAD/org.eclipse.xtend.git - hudson.remoting.LocalChannel@1df3b8bc
Pruning obsolete local branches
Fetching changes from the remote Git repository
Fetching upstream changes from /gitroot/xtend/org.eclipse.xtend.git
Seen branch in repository origin1/master
Nothing to do
Checkout:org.eclipse.xtext.git / /opt/users/hudsonbuild/workspace/Xtext-nightly-HEAD/org.eclipse.xtext.git - hudson.remoting.LocalChannel@1df3b8bc
Pruning obsolete local branches
Fetching changes from the remote Git repository
Fetching upstream changes from /gitroot/tmf/org.eclipse.xtext.git
Seen branch in repository origin/2.1.x_Maintenance
Seen branch in repository origin/Helios_Maintenance
Seen branch in repository origin/master
Seen branch in repository origin/playground
Seen branch in repository origin/releng
Nothing to do
Recording fingerprints
Archiving artifacts
Sending e-mails to: dennis.huebner@itemis.de
[DEBUG] Skipping watched dependency update for build: Xtext-nightly-HEAD #2134 due to result: FAILURE
Finished: FAILURE

Any progress/thoughts on this?

Comment 2 Steffen Pingel

2012-03-03 13:50:21 EST

This is a pretty major limitation of the Git integration. Does anyone have pointers where to start looking in order to fix this?

Comment 3 Winston Prakash

2012-03-05 11:12:35 EST

Steven could you take a look at this. If I'm correct this was reported earlier and was fixed. Need to find out which version the fix was in

Comment 4 Steve Christou

2012-03-06 16:47:37 EST

This issue has been fix as part of commit: https://github.com/hudson-plugins/git-plugin/commit/d53e85ae3002597c3ce10eafd8693ca106dfcd1f

I believe we need to release a new version of the git plugin to include these changes.

Comment 5 Gunnar Wagenknecht

2013-07-11 11:37:35 EDT

(In reply to comment #4)
> This issue has been fix as part of commit:
> https://github.com/hudson-plugins/git-plugin/commit/
> d53e85ae3002597c3ce10eafd8693ca106dfcd1f
> 
> I believe we need to release a new version of the git plugin to include
> these changes.

Has a new version of the Git plug-in been released? 

I'm still seeing this on Eclipse.org Hudson. (cc Webmaster). If a new release is available I think it should be updated at the Eclipse.org Hudson.

Comment 6 Alex Panchenko

2014-06-12 03:23:58 EDT

Still happens at hudson.eclipse.org :(

Comment 7 Ivan Inozemtsev

2014-12-04 03:59:28 EST

Seeing this issue too. Looks like it affects only when branch names contain slashes

Comment 8 Nimi Sukumaran

2014-12-08 10:01:14 EST

I had faced the same problem .

I was getting "Nothing to do failure" when I configure the branch name with a slash 

Now I configured the branch specifier as origin/branch_name with slash and it worked.

Comment 9 Lidia Marchioni

2015-02-25 18:56:36 EST

Facing the same issue, branch name contains slashes.

Comment 10 Lidia Marchioni

2015-02-25 19:01:50 EST

Using origin/<branch-name> in Branch Specifier field did NOT help.  This is Hudson 3.2.2 and git plugin version 2.2.9.

Comment 11 Nimi Sukumaran

2015-02-26 05:21:16 EST

@Lidia(In reply to Lidia Marchioni from comment #10)
> Using origin/<branch-name> in Branch Specifier field did NOT help.  This is
> Hudson 3.2.2 and git plugin version 2.2.9.

Hi Lidia : can you please paste the entire error log here?

Comment 12 mahesh podapati

2016-08-30 02:36:50 EDT

Skipping watched dependency update for build:          #900 due to result: FAILURE        


This is the error in Hudson Dashboard 3.1.2 ,i am using Git ,please give to me   step by step Answer