don't fail jenkins build if execute shell fails

Question

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 be

Answer 1

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.