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How not to run pipelines on specific commit message

I have pipeline that makes some changes and commits another change which triggers another pipeline and I dont want that automatic update to trigger pipeline.

I had an idea that I will specify commit message and that ignore it, but for some reason I cannot get it working.

Can you help me with that?

variables:
  COMMIT_MESSAGE: "MyCommitMessage"

workflow:
  rules:
    - if: $CI_COMMIT_MESSAGE != $COMMIT_MESSAGE
...
Solution

  • You have to add the never keyword and use a regex like this :

    variables:
  COMMIT_MESSAGE: "MyCommitMessage"

workflow:
  rules:
    - if: $CI_COMMIT_MESSAGE =~ /^.*COMMIT_MESSAGE/
      when: never
    - when: always

    The if will be evaluate to true and the pipeline will never run.