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:
daveken@microsoft.com

[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!