A workflow with the following path filter will only run on push events that include at least one file outside the docs directory at the root of the repository.
on:
push:
paths-ignore:
- 'docs/**'
Hi @Joe
Thank you for reaching out with your question.
One option is to use https://buildkite.com/docs/pipelines/skipping#ignore-a-commit where you can add [ci skip] or [skip ci] anywhere in the commit message.
Other possible options are using plugins such as https://github.com/chronotc/monorepo-diff-buildkite-plugin or https://github.com/pragmaplatform/sparse-checkout-buildkite-plugin
Please let us know if you have any follow questions.
Hi @suma,
We tried [skip ci] doesn’t work in this case as GitHub blocks the merge saying a valid check is required.
Any work around to this?
Thanks,
Hey @Joe that must be because [skip ci] will cause Buildkite to not run any build and therefore not report back any check to GitHub where you are using a branch protection rule.
In this case, one of the plugins might be your best as they will start a build and run at least one step so that we would report a status check back to GitHub. But depending on if there are files changed, there might not be other steps so its very close to a no-op.