Is it possible to "rebuild in place" without generating a new build?

We sometimes run into a situation where a build has failed due to environmental/transient reasons, not because the code is faulty. When we used Bamboo, we had the option to “rebuild” that build, which would keep the same build number (for example, #15), instead of creating a new one, as CircleCI does.

Is this an option that can be enabled somewhere?

I believe that any rebuild in CircleCI will create a new number for the rebuild, and I’m unaware of any way around that functionality.

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Ok, thanks.

This is correct, build numbers are an immutable thing in CircleCI.

The immutability is probably a good thing - it is an audit trail. Being able to re-run in place would be an easy way to hide a destructive operation.

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