jenkins - How to relaunch GitHub check without pushing new commits?

Question

I'm currently using GitHub with a basic Jenkins integration (with the GitHub plugin): each time I push something, my Jenkins tests are triggered and the status is reported to GitHub.

For some dirty reasons (and I know the root cause is here), my tests could randomly fail and then report a failed status to GitHub (which blocked the possibility to merge the PR: and that's the expected behavior).

Do you know if it's possible to relaunch the tests without pushing a new commit? Because I know if I relaunch the tests, they will pass.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52408592/how-to-relaunch-github-check-without-pushing-new-commits

Answer 1

Doing git commit --amend and force pushing makes github retrigger all checks. Not perfect but better than closing then reopening the PR.