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Add way to manually trigger build for branches.

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Jeremy Murray

05 Aug, 2014 12:02 AM

Currently the New Build button only builds the default branch. If it could have a drop-down or there were a separate page that allows on-demand builds of multiple branches, that would save me needing to change the default, start a build, and change the default back.

Thanks!

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 05 Aug, 2014 08:26 AM

   

   Great suggestion, thanks.

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2. 2 Posted by Wilhelm Berg on 29 Jul, 2015 07:52 AM

   

   Any news on this, or did I miss it in the GUI?

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 29 Jul, 2015 06:47 PM

   

   Nope, it's not there yet. You should set "Default branch" to start a new build on it.

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4. 4 Posted by Wilhelm Berg on 06 Aug, 2015 01:06 PM

   

   Ok, thanks.
   Unfortunately changing the default branch is not always an option.

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5. 5 Posted by no on 15 Mar, 2017 04:34 AM

   

   +1

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6. 6 Posted by yoav on 02 Aug, 2017 12:05 PM

   

   +1

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7. 7 Posted by Ilya Finkelshte... on 02 Aug, 2017 05:33 PM

   

   this maybe not as easy as UI option, but can help as temporary solution. Remove commitId from sample though.

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8. 8 Posted by Ricardo on 20 Nov, 2017 05:03 PM

   

   +1

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9. 9 Posted by jstafford on 07 Feb, 2018 10:19 PM

   

   Has this gotten any movement? I'm in a situation where for whatever reason, commits aren't being built at all (not sure why) and for troubleshooting purposes, it'd be nice to force the build for a specific branch

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10. 10 Posted by Ilya Finkelshte... on 07 Feb, 2018 11:16 PM

    

    jstafford, sorry it is still not implemented. To understand why commits do not trigger the build, please do the following:

    • check your source control (GitHub, BitBucket) webhooks for this repo.
    • find AppVeyor webhook and see if it was sent for specific commit.
    • If webhook was sent, check response from AppVeyor
    • If response was 204, send us Commit ID and exact time (in UTC or with time zone) when webhook was sent.
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11. 11 Posted by jstafford on 07 Feb, 2018 11:18 PM

    

    It appears that it was just a delay of about a minute or so. It eventually triggered. Strange. The feature would still be much appreciated :)

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12. 12 Posted by Jan Pio on 14 Feb, 2018 03:14 PM

    

    Yes please for the button. Would be very nice, right now I copy over the API request from the dev console network panel in Chrome as cURL to the command line and add the branch manually.

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13. 13 Posted by Nick Slowes on 26 Apr, 2018 02:23 PM

    

    +1 This would be especially helpful for builds that publish NuGet packages

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14. 14 Posted by Ilya Finkelshte... on 26 Apr, 2018 09:27 PM

    

    Please watch https://github.com/appveyor/ci/issues/2253

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15. Ilya Finkelshteyn closed this discussion on 25 Aug, 2018 02:28 AM.