How to cancel/not execute Bitbucket Pipelines builds based on a condition?

Question

I want to update my yml file to ignore commits from certain users. Is this possible? Is there a similar solution? Ideally I wouldn't even want to trigger the build in the first place.

Pseudo code example of yml file (ignore syntax, I'm just showcasing what I'm trying to do)

user: git show -s --format='%ae' $BITBUCKET_COMMIT
unwantedUser: "person@mail.com"

pipelines:
  tags:
    '**' && user != unwantedUser: # any tags by wanted users
      - step:
          script:
            (...)

What would be the actual syntax to achieve that?

score 12 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 05 '18 at 21:47

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I ended up including the [skip ci] string in my commit messages to avoid triggering the pipeline.

From the documentation:

Can I commit without triggering the pipeline? Yes. If you don't want to run a pipeline on a commit that would normally trigger one, you can include [skip ci] or [ci skip] anywhere in your commit message of the HEAD commit. Any commits that include [skip ci] or [ci skip] in the message are ignored by Pipelines.

answered Nov 05 '18 at 21:47

Alejandro Cotilla

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That's causing an issue when merging PRs using Squash, where it'll also skip ci for the merged pipeline as the auto-generated comment includes the previous commits' messages – Amer Sawan Mar 02 '22 at 10:23
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Good point, and another good reason to not use squash. – Alejandro Cotilla Mar 02 '22 at 16:31
Squash should be used, and you should rewrite the commit message to omit [skip ci] when doing so. – Dragas Dec 29 '22 at 12:23

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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Alternatively, if you want to trigger pipeline manualy you can use 'custom' tag.

From the documentation

pipelines:
  custom: # Pipelines that can only be triggered manually
    sonar:
      - step:
          script:
            - echo "Manual triggers for Sonar are awesome!"

Custom pipelines do not run automatically on a commit to a branch. You can run a pipeline with commits view page or branches view page.

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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answered Nov 21 '18 at 21:46

Edward D. Wilson

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Good to know. Thanks. – Alejandro Cotilla Nov 21 '18 at 21:59

How to cancel/not execute Bitbucket Pipelines builds based on a condition?

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