Robocopy exit alwsy with status code 1 and hence failing the job even if with all success

I have created pretty simple CI job with shell runner, so when i am executing simple robocopy with mirror copy, Its always returning exit code as 1 and triggering failed job

Anyone have solution for this to always return success job, i have already tried xcopy but in my case it will not work as i want to delete the folders also at destination.

below is my simple yml

stages:
  - clonning

deploy_job:
  stage: clonning
  only:
    - master
  script:
    - 'robocopy . "$env:DEST_PATH" /MIR /XF Thumbs.db *.yml *.md /XD .git /R:0'

So here my issue, how could i write statement to return particular with exit code, suppose here is single statement of robocopy, how should i write second statement or something like 'exit 0' in script section

FYI, robocopy is working perfectly, its just its returning status code 1 and that is not failure then also its failing the job.

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mentioned in issue #32017 (closed)

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@ankitsanghvi I would recommend actually using our support options given this isn't a GitLab bug or feature request. Find the correct support option for you based on your subscription level here and you should get a quicker response.

If you believe this is a failure in GitLab, kindly reopen this issue and elaborate for us. As a workaround, if you can't get Robocopy to behave as you want, you can tell GitLab CI to allow the job to fail.

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I see now robocopy is a Windows program, so I am going to assume that you are (1) using a local install of GitLab and (2) are running against Windows based machines you've set up. Is that correct? Otherwise, a script that tries to run a Windows program on a shared Linux runner in GitLab CI will always fail.

We use standard Unix exit codes to determine if a job has passed or failed. It appears Robocopy does not follow the standard Unix error codes, nor does it follow the precedent set by Windows itself where exit code 1 is ERROR_INVALID_FUNCTION.

What you are asking for is how to use Robocopy from the command line and how to trick it into returning a standard success code (0 instead of 1). I'm afraid that's beyond the scope of the GitLab issue board. Please use the Support Page link to log a request for help in the appropriate channel.

Since this is not a bug and your request is out of scope of the issue tracker, I'm afraid I have to close this issue. You will find assistance using the link I gave you above.

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@zeffmorgan, I think it's very valid concern. It is absolutely irritating the robocopy isn't following sane exit code conventions, outrageous even. But, robocopy is an extremely useful pre-installed utility for those unfortunate enough to be stuck with Windows.

@ankitsanghvi The best solution I know of for this sort of thing is given here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56868802/reset-lastexitcode-if-robocopy-succeeds-with-powershell

The general form of the solution is: robocopy src dest /mir; if ($lastexitcode -lt 8) { $global:LASTEXITCODE = $null }