GitHub Build Settings

General
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Is it possible to have the following build configuration in github without expressing it in the Filter Build Conditional language:

  • Build all commits on master
  • Build all commits on production
  • Build all pull requests

I’m trying to migrate my repo from building all branches to the above configuration. But I don’t want to interrupt my deploys on master and production.

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Hey @OwenCR

Thanks for reaching out!

Apart from using Conditional expressions you can use Branch Filter Pattern and GitHub Settings on your pipeline. Make sure you don’t have “Skip pull request builds for existing commits” when you select Build Pull Request

Go to pipeline setting → select Github

Cheers!

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Ah! I wasn’t sure if Branch Limiting would exclude my Pull Request branches.

To be sure, are you suggesting similar settings in the UI to the attached screenshots?

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Make sure you don’t have “Skip pull request builds for existing commits” when you select Build Pull Request

With this setting off, if I push 50 commits up, then open a PR, only the tip would get built in Buildkite.
Whereas with the setting on, if I do the same thing, 50 builds get triggered in Buildkite.

Is that correct?

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@OwenCR If I understand your question correctly. This setting will only work if turned on prior to all these though

So if you have “Skip pull request builds for existing commits” and a for that commit that already started then any other builds on the same commit will be skipped