Go.CD - Updating git repo in build pipeline triggers another build

Question

I am trying to update my git repo during the GoCD build. That means that because Go sees another change it triggers another build. Is it possible to stop the re-triggering of the build?

Background: I am building and publishing npm packages and I want to automatically increase the prerelease version so I don't have to remember it.

My pipeline looks essentially like this:

npm version prerelease --no-git-tag-version
npm publish
git add package.json
git commit -m "Bump prerelease version"
git push origin

This will update the version in git if the publish succeeds but also triggers another build since Go is polling.

Answer 1

Configure your CD/CI tool to build only when there is a commit to a specified branch or you can probably create a new branch called "pre-release" and configure CD/CI not to build when there is a commit.

Once this configuration is done in the CD/CI tool

npm version prerelease --no-git-tag-version
npm publish

// fetching for other branches
git fetch

// Switching your branch 
git checkout pre-release

// Finally committing
git add -m "Your commit message"
git push -u origin pre-release

I hope this works out for you :)