Automatically restart a build

Drone Support
1

My git clone step very often fails. Would it be possible to automatically retry the clone step or restart the build when it happens?

2

The clone is handled by plugins, which means you could create a custom clone plugin with retry logic. You can override the default clone plugin with the below syntax [1]

+clone:
+ default:
+   image: allanrenucci/custom-clone-plugins-with-retry

pipeline:
  build:
    image: golang
    commands: go build

We have some basic tutorials available for creating plugins in bash [1] and Go [2], however, you can use pretty much any language you want as long as it runs in a docker container.

[1] http://docs.drone.io/cloning/
[2] http://docs.drone.io/creating-custom-plugins-bash/
[3] http://docs.drone.io/creating-custom-plugins-golang/

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