How to rerun a failed job on Github Actions

[Joshua Root]

On 24/5/2026 03:45, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate via macports-dev wrote:
> Sometimes a Github runner fails because of a system problem, not because 
> of the job contents.  I can start reruns in my private fork, but not in 
> the MacPorts main repo.  There is some kind of permissions block.
> 
> How do I restart a failed job in the main repo?  I would prefer not to 
> push a trivial change and further mess up the commit history.  Is there 
> a better way?
> 
> https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/32828 <https:// 
> github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/32828>

You can rebase and force push as much as you need to, but any committer 
should be able to re-run CI builds if needed.

- Josh