Major When using p4publish with multiple paths listed in the `paths` argument, and the workspace doesn't contain any changes compared to the depot, publish will fail with
Unable to publish workspace: hudson.AbortException: P4JAVA: Error(s): No file(s) to reconcile.
This seems to be a result of a check in ClientHelper.java
getValidate().check(status, "- no file(s) to reconcile", "instead of", "empty, assuming text", "also opened by");
which apparently should ignore the p4java status "- no file(s) to reconcile" but when reconciling with multiple paths, the message is "No file(s) to reconcile." - this can be easily tested from the command line:
> p4 rec foo/... foo/... - no file(s) to reconcile. > p4 rec foo/... bar/... No file(s) to reconcile.
The attached patch changes the ignore string so that it's recognized in both cases, as the check uses StringUtils.containsIgnoreCase(msg, istring) to compare the message with it.
[JENKINS-72335] p4publish step fails when using 'paths' argument with multiple paths and there are no changes.
Sandeep Kumar
added a comment - Fix for this is available in P4 1.16.0 
Thank you very much for letting us know abannerth and providing a patch.
I confirm I can reproduce this.
Reproduction Steps:
(1) Create a depot path called //depot/TwoFolders and and files in two subfolders:
mkdir TwoFolders mkdir TwoFolders/src echo test >TwoFolders/src/test1 mkdir TwoFolders/bin echo test >TwoFolders/bin/test2 p4 reconcile p4 submit -d "adding two test files"(2) Create following Jenkins job (replace credential with your credential):
pipeline { agent any options { skipDefaultCheckout() } stages { stage("Test") { steps { script { echo "In script." checkout perforce(credential: 'JenkinsMaster', populate: autoClean(delete: true, modtime: false, parallel: [enable: false, minbytes: '1024', minfiles: '1', threads: '4'], pin: '', quiet: false, replace: true, tidy: false), workspace: manualSpec(charset: 'none', cleanup: false, name: 'jenkins-${NODE_NAME}-${JOB_NAME}-${EXECUTOR_NUMBER}', pinHost: false, spec: clientSpec(allwrite: false, backup: true, changeView: '', clobber: true, compress: false, line: 'LOCAL', locked: false, modtime: false, rmdir: false, serverID: '', streamName: '', type: 'WRITABLE', view: '''//depot/TwoFolders/... //${P4_CLIENT}/...'''))) } } } stage("Publish") { steps { script { echo "In Publish script." echo "No changes tp detect." p4publish credential: 'JenkinsMaster', publish: shelve(delete: false, description: 'Shelved by Jenkins. Build: ${BUILD_TAG}', modtime: false, onlyOnSuccess: false, paths: '''src/... bin/...''', revert: false), workspace: manualSpec(charset: 'none', cleanup: false, name: 'jenkins-${NODE_NAME}-${JOB_NAME}-${EXECUTOR_NUMBER}', pinHost: false, spec: clientSpec(allwrite: false, backup: true, changeView: '', clobber: true, compress: false, line: 'LOCAL', locked: false, modtime: false, rmdir: false, serverID: '', streamName: '', type: 'WRITABLE', view: '//depot/TwoFolders/... //${P4_CLIENT}/...')) } } } } }(3) Run above . It will fail with:
I will let the developers know.