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

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"