Skip build if there's [skip ci] in the commit message.

[KelvinJin]

Hey, just wonder if there's a way I can skip a build if [skip ci] or something exists in the commit message. I know we have branch filters and path filters, but commit message filter would be nice to have if I just commit something really tiny.

[ericsciple]

i think as long as the commit message contains NO_CI then it will skip

[ericsciple]

***NO_CI***

[KelvinJin]

Aha, good to know. It worked. Thanks!

[marceloavf]

Basically most of the others CI use [ci skip] or [skip ci] (e.g. Travis, CircleCI, Concourse)

Some dependencies use [ci skip] as a pattern to skip automatically versioning from their CI, why not make VSTS also accept it?

[masters3d]

Come Vote here for additional spellings.

[chrislampley]

@ericsciple ***NO_CI*** does not work for Azure Pipelines

[davekenn]

@chrislampley can you please point me at your account and build, I am curious why it didn't work for you?
You can message me privately if you don't want to share your account information:
[email protected]

[chrislampley]

@ericsciple PM sent.

[davekenn]

Although I am not Eric, he is just a few feet away from me, we will take a look and get back to you, thanks!

[ericsciple]

@chrislampley sorry I didn't see any message or I missed it

[rauljmz]

***NO_CI*** is also not working for me on Azure Pipelines. Getting endless recursive builds. Is there a solution?

[TingluoHuang]

@rauljmz can you provide more detail info?
what's your Azure DevOps account?
what's your definition looks like, the trigger section?
how did you provide the ***NO_CI*** string?

[rauljmz]

@TingluoHuang the DevOps account is CluedIn-io. The trigger section is picked up from the YML file and is simply

trigger:
- develop
- master

The original intention is for the pipeline to make an extra commit to the master branch during build. This should not trigger a new build, but despite the ***NO_CI*** flag being in the commit message, it does (causing constant builds).
I have also tried simply pushing a commit manually with the flag too, that also triggers a build.
I have tried putting ***NO_CI*** in the beginning, in the end, with square brackets... running out of options!

[TingluoHuang]

@rauljmz if you manually (not during your build) commit a change with ***NO_CI*** in commit message and push it to master, will it trigger a CI build?

[rauljmz]

@TingluoHuang Yes it does - I tried that too.

[TingluoHuang]

@rauljmz i can repro myself, can you share some screenshot of how do you made the commit message?
this is my message looks like:

[rauljmz]

@TingluoHuang Of course.

The last two, Rev.42 is manual commit and push, Rev.43 is the one generated by the automated commit in the pipeline. Both have ***NO_CI*** yet triggered a pipeline.

The yaml file does this:

  - task: Bash@3
    displayName: 'Commit changes to repo'
    condition: and(succeeded(), eq(variables['Build.SourceBranch'], 'refs/heads/master'))
    inputs:
      targetType: 'inline'
      script: "git checkout master; git add docs; git commit -m '[***NO_CI***] Pushed new packaged version of helm chart';git push;"

[TingluoHuang]

@madhurig

[madhurig]

@rauljmz - it appears you are using the Azure Pipelines GitHub app. This is currently a limitation when using the GitHub app and it is something we plan to address.

If you are making commits via the script under a particular folder of in a specific file, you can use PATH filters as a workaround to avoid triggering builds for changes in the specific file or under that folder. E.g. add something like this in your yml file

trigger: branches: include: - master paths: exclude: - docs/*

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/build/triggers?view=vsts&tabs=yaml

If that workaround is not something you can apply, you can switch to using PAT or OAuth for authenticating with GitHub. One of the downsides of that is that you won't get checks but will see a status update from the Azure pipelines results.

Thanks,
Madhuri

[rauljmz]

@madhuri Thanks for looking into this. Actually I implemented your suggested workaround excluding the /docs path two days ago and it works well. I think it would be good to add this limitation of the GitHub app service connection to the [documentation]( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/repos/github?view=vsts). Incidentally, whenever I add new projects to the organization it only allows me to use OAuth or PAT, but the checks are still available. I will try to capture it in another issue.

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On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 at 20:10, Madhuri Gummalla ***@***.***> wrote: @rauljmz <https://github.com/rauljmz> - it appears you are using the Azure Pipelines GitHub app. This is currently a limitation when using the GitHub app and it is something we plan to address. If you are making commits via the script under a particular folder of in a specific file, you can use PATH filters as a workaround to avoid triggering builds for changes in the specific file or under that folder. E.g. add something like this in your yml file trigger: branches: include: - master paths: exclude: - docs/* https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/build/triggers?view=vsts&tabs=yaml If that workaround is not something you can apply, you can switch to using PAT or OAuth for authenticating with GitHub. One of the downsides of that is that you won't get checks but will see a status update from the Azure pipelines results. Thanks, Madhuri — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#858 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ABHHsBVIXCIyatOxpl3XQovk2MqmQ1uwks5u5AXOgaJpZM4MddVj> .

[madhurig]

@rauljmz - thanks for the update. We are working on improvements in the app flow and pipeline creation so the app would be the default way to create pipelines whenever possible.

Thanks,
Madhuri

[nickromano]

Another option if you're using YAML builds: create a condition for that step to only run if [skip ci] isn't in the commit message. Unfortunately, you can't do this at the job level because it hasn't pulled sources yet so Build.SourceVersionMessage is null. You'll need to copy it to each step in your pipeline.

steps:
  - bash: echo "Run tests"
    condition: not(contains(variables['Build.SourceVersionMessage'], '[skip ci]'))

[mloskot]

Vote for Add support [ci skip] and [azure skip] to Azure Pipelines on the Developer Community

[davidstaheli]

This is available now. You can tell Azure Pipelines to skip running a pipeline that a commit would normally trigger. Just include [skip ci] in the commit message or description of the HEAD commit and Azure Pipelines will skip running CI. You can also use any of the variations below. This is supported for commits to Azure Repos Git, Bitbucket Cloud, GitHub, and GitHub Enterprise Server.

• [skip ci] or [ci skip]
• skip-checks: true or skip-checks:true
• [skip azurepipelines] or [azurepipelines skip]
• [skip azpipelines] or [azpipelines skip]
• [skip azp] or [azp skip]
• ***NO_CI***

[laike9m]

Unless I'm misunderstanding something, this feature does not work for me.

Here's my CI run:
https://dev.azure.com/laike9m/laike9m/_build/results?buildId=328&view=results

It was triggered by two commits, which all had [skip ci] in the commit message.
https://github.com/laike9m/Cyberbrain/pull/66/commits

Can someone help me take a look?

[Vic152]

This does not work.

[whenmoon]

This does not work. Or at least in a way that would be useful to me. I want to be able to stop any build pipelines, not just certain ones.

My scenario is that I commit to a branch when a pipeline runs - this pipeline is triggered by a branch policy when a PR is made to validate the build. But when pushing the commit the pipeline triggers itself and then fails because the previous run committed changes to what the pipeline itself requires. These flags are of no use to me and do not fulfil my requirement.

The issue shouldn't be closed because adding [skip ci] doesn't always skip ci.

[SlasherZet]

FYI I think this requires the [skip ci] to be on its own commit line in the commit message. It did not work for me when it was on the same line as the release version like this:
"Release version 0.1.5 [skip ci]"

But when I tried it with commit like this it worked fine and CI was skipped:
"Release version 0.1.5
[skip ci]"

[xram]

I tried what @SlasherZet has suggested, but the CI build still ran. My commit message was:

chore (release): publish v4.7.2
[skip ci]

[pllim]

FWIW [skip ci] works on GitHub Actions.

[vany0114]

@BoazWarshawsky

jeliasson I am 99% sure, what I tried to running this line:
echo $(Build.SourceVersionMessage)
and what I got is:
Merge d66b422899c095fffeeb6a1448a0af113e0eab7f into d58ad52ba31cc0d11be346d23f491e8b0793fefa

Instead of my commit message.

What am I doing wrong here?

Did you manage to sort that out? I'm running into exactly the same issue

[LasithaPrabodha]

Use [ci skip]. Works for me

[jizusun]

Use [ci skip]. Works for me

Thank you @LasithaPrabodha
Works for me too.

About Azure DevOps Server
Version Dev18.M170.8

[isc30]

2022 and still doesn't work from ADO (dev.azure)

In my case its the release pipeline pushing some changes to GIT with the message "[skip ci] updating package.json"

but it doesn't work

[mainred]

the same case here, I tried [skip ci], [ci skip] and [skip azp], none of them work for ADO

[isc30]

@ericsciple @TingluoHuang @davidstaheli @madhurig
please reopen

[ksaffarian]

/reopen
this does not work on GitHub configured as App.
I tried [ci skip] , [skip ci] , [skip azp] and NO_CI

Indeed, most of the AZP checks show as skipped "due to skip command" (which is good as sign that the command is interpreted)- but those would already get skipped because of path filtering (exclude: path);
The pipelines that match the filtering (include: path) would not get skipped by above commands in the commit message and still get executed!

[klemen-df]

Confirming it doesn't work.

[Luiz-Monad]

This is available now. You can tell Azure Pipelines to skip running a pipeline that a commit would normally trigger. Just include [skip ci] in the commit message or description of the HEAD commit and Azure Pipelines will skip running CI. You can also use any of the variations below. This is supported for commits to Azure Repos Git, Bitbucket Cloud, GitHub, and GitHub Enterprise Server.

* `[skip ci]` or `[ci skip]`

* `skip-checks: true` or `skip-checks:true`

* `[skip azurepipelines]` or `[azurepipelines skip]`

* `[skip azpipelines]` or `[azpipelines skip]`

* `[skip azp]` or `[azp skip]`

* `***NO_CI***`

Does work !
Now I don't need to grab a coffee every time, saves on coffee beans.

[klemen-df]

I don't know, maybe I'm doing something wrong, but the pipeline was triggered for this :

[isc30]

Still doesn't work 😩

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[shiitake]

Confirmed. [skip-ci] doesn't work.

[muhkuh]

Still doesn't work 😩

[itsme112358]

Would love to see this work on Release Pipelines as well 🙈
I have a build pipeline updating version numbers etc. and pushing afterwards. [skip ci] luckily works on the build (otherwise there would be build loop galore 😅 But it will always trigger two releases.
Obviously I can (and do) get around it by publishing a package on the second commit and using that as a trigger instead of the repo. Still would be nice to get something like [skip cd] to also just handle it on a commit basis.

[jonsnowseven]

I cannot make this work for Github Pull Request pipeline builds.
Is there a way to make it work?

[qqii]

I think I've figured out why this sometimes doesn't work:

If you have an open PR and you push changes to its source branch, multiple pipelines may run:

• The pipelines specified by the target branch's build validation policy will run on the merge commit (the merged code between the source and target branches of the pull request), regardless if there exist pushed commits whose messages or descriptions contain [skip ci] (or any of its variants).
• The pipelines triggered by changes to the PR's source branch, if there are no pushed commits whose messages or descriptions contain [skip ci] (or any of its variants). If at least one pushed commit contains [skip ci], the pipelines will not run.

Finally, after you merge the PR, Azure Pipelines will run the CI pipelines triggered by pushes to the target branch, even if some of the merged commits' messages or descriptions contain [skip ci] (or any of its variants).

(https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/repos/azure-repos-git?view=azure-devops&tabs=yaml#pr-triggers)

[alvindutt]

@nickromano thank you for your recommendation. I had the issue on an open PR and was adding the condition on job level instead of step level like you had mentioned
similiar issue reported here #2441

Thanks a bunch