Trigger a Travis-CI rebuild without pushing a commit?

Question

Using Travis-CI, is it possible to trigger a rebuild without pushing a new commit to GitHub?

Use case: A build fails due to an externality. The source is actually co

Answer 1

• If you have write access to the repo: On the build's detail screen, there is a button ↻ Restart Build. Also under "More Options" there is a trigger build menu item.

  Note: Browser extensions like Ghostery may prevent the restart button from being displayed. Try disabling the extension or white-listing Travis CI.

  Note2: If .travis.yml configuration has changed in the upstream, clicking rebuild button will run travis with old configuration. To apply upstream changes for travis configuration one has to add commit to PR or to close / reopen it.

• If you've sent a pull request: You can close the PR then open it again. This will trigger a new build.

Restart Build:

Trigger Build:

Answer 2

If you install the Travis CI Client you can use travis restart <job#> to manually re-run a build from the console. You can find the last job# for a branch using travis show <branch>

travis show master
travis restart 48 #use Job number without .1
travis logs master

UPDATE: Sadly it looks like this doesn't start a new build using the latest commit, but instead just restarts a previous build using the previous state of the repo.

Answer 3

Log in to Travis and go to the build page. You will see a "Restart Build" button on the top-right corner, next to the gear icon:

Note: you need to have write access to the linked GitHub repo for this to work.

Answer 4

If you have new project on GitHub which has .travis.yml, but was never tested, you can run tests without commit this way:

1. enable testing in Travis CI setings
2. open project page on GitHub
3. open settings -> webhooks and services
4. find Travis CI in services and press edit button
5. press "Test service"