How to relaunch GitHub check without pushing new commits?

I'm currently using GitHub with a basic Jenkins integration (with the GitHub plugin): each time I push something, my Jenkins tests are triggered and the status is reported to GitHub.

For some dirty reasons (and I know the root cause is here), my tests could randomly fail and then report a failed status to GitHub (which blocked the possibility to merge the PR: and that's the expected behavior).

Do you know if it's possible to relaunch the tests without pushing a new commit? Because I know if I relaunch the tests, they will pass.

Update: you can also push an empty commit to your branch to re-trigger status checks: git commit -m "retrigger checks" --allow-empty and then git push <branchname>

You can do this by closing and then re-opening the Pull Request. This will cause all status checks to run again on the same commit.

Doing git commit --amend and force pushing makes github retrigger all checks. Not perfect but better than closing then reopening the PR.

There's now a button in the Github UI to rerun checks. Not sure if it works for Jenkins, but it worked for my situation.

If you open a PR that failed, under Checks tab you will see the list of all checks that were performed on your PR. Next to the failed ones, there will be a clickable text that says "Re-run"

Depending on how you have integrated Github with Jenkins and what plugin you have have used, the method might vary. But usually you have support for "magic"-sentences that will retrigger Jenkins if added as a comment on Github.

For example commenting "test this please" or "retest this please" in Github might retrigger Jenkins.

Seems like closing and re-opening the PR could be an option.