Pact Foundation

Hello everyone, I have a question: Is there a way to allow new consumer contrats to be deployed using can-i-deploy even if there is no provider code to support it at the exact time of deployement?
The reason I'm asking is that I want to prevent merge hell, i.e. consomer code waiting in separate branch waiting for the provider code to be developped.

There is a “dry run” option and options to ignore specific pacticipants in the result.

run `pact-broker help can-i-deploy` to see the available options

`can-i-deploy` is designed to prevent this situation, because it is inherently unsafe (how can you deploy a consumer if the provider is not there? Clearly, the consumer won’t work)

If you know this is the case in advance, the best thing to do is just _not_ call can-i-deploy. If *you* have the information in advance to know you want to skip can-i-deploy, just skip it

Thank you Matt, that answers my question!