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[skip ci] for GitHub Actions

This feature is already available on GitHub Actions. However, you could use this guide to make your own skip tags.

GitHub Actions doesn't support skipping builds with [skip ci] like CircleCI, for example. But here's the magic trick:

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    if: "! contains(github.event.head_commit.message, '[ci skip]')"

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This snippet allows you to any custom filter you need. For example, I like to use:

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    if: "contains(toJSON(github.event.head_commit.message), '[build]')"
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Only triggers the action if [build] is found in some pushed commit comment, like a manual trigger.

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Jannik Wempe

Since I just had troubles using this, a quick reminder: the code above will check all commits in github.event.commits (which could be more than just the latest commit!) for [skip ci]. Therefore a workflow was skipped with a commit not having [skip ci] in the commit message, which was not intended...

If you want to just check the latest commit, change it to:

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    if: "!contains(github.event.head_commit.message, '[ci skip]')"
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epassaro • Edited

Thank you!.

This change has already been added to the original post.