Avoid triggering build on certain file changes (e.g README.md)

Question

Is there any way to avoid triggering build on certain file commits which are not directly related to source code?

e.g. I don't want to trigger a automatic build when anyone make changes to README.md file or some reference document file.

Ian W · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-26T17:45:05.973

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I don't know that it's described in the plugin page or the Wiki, but at least according to the Advanced Features/Additional Behaviors, the git plugin can be configured to do what you're looking for in multiple ways. eg: Polling ignores commits in certain paths lets you specify an Included region or Excluded region" The help (?) says:

Each exclusion uses java regular expression pattern matching, and must be separated by a new line.
myapp/src/main/web/.*\.html
myapp/src/main/web/.*\.jpeg
myapp/src/main/web/.*\.gif
The example above illustrates that if only html/jpeg/gif files have been committed to the SCM a build will not occur.

You'd have to try them out. One less plugin - KISS!

edited Jul 26 '19 at 17:45

answered Jul 26 '19 at 07:37

Ian W

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does it allow direct file path or wildcard? did you try? – Kundan Jul 26 '19 at 12:40
Added details. Didi not try but help says Java regex supported. – Ian W Jul 26 '19 at 17:45
Also supports the feature in your response - skip a build on any file commit which has this keyword [ci skip]. – Ian W Jul 26 '19 at 19:00

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 25 '19 at 15:51

After searching for quite a while I finally found a Jenkins plugin which can skip the build when there is keyword "[ci skip]" in the commit message.

This allows to skip a build on any file commit which has this keyword [ci skip].

only disadvantage is, it will skip the build even if somebody puts [ci skip] in a code file commit

Github: jenkins-ci-skip-plugin

Avoid triggering build on certain file changes (e.g README.md)

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