Azure-pipelines-agent: "skip ci" in commit message not working

[BoazWarshawsky]

I am trying to find a way to skip Azure CI via the commit message, when trying the following messages none of them really do the work and skip the CI run:
[skip ci] or [ci skip]
skip-checks: true or skip-checks:true
[skip azurepipelines] or [azurepipelines skip]
[skip azpipelines] or [azpipelines skip]
[skip azp] or [azp skip]
NO_CI

[DotNetSparky]

For on-prem server, try this: ***NO_CI***
(include the asterisks)

The others might only work for Azure DevOps Services (the hosted version), they don't show up in the docs when I switch the filter to "Azure DevOps Server 2019" (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/build/triggers?view=azure-devops-2019)

[petong]

I am having the same issue, and from what I have read in #858 placing [skip ci] in a commit message only skips on merge to master and not in a PR run, which is totally bizarro!

[BoazWarshawsky]

***NO_CI*** is not working too

[jeliasson]

Until we have a proper fix in place, here is a temporary fix that will skip the script execution if the commit message (Build.SourceVersionMessage) contains skip ci. Using a variable if the condition is repeated for more scripts.

variables:
    SKIP_CI_FILTER: 'skip ci'

steps:
  - script: sh ./script1.sh
    condition: not(contains(variables['Build.SourceVersionMessage'], variables['SKIP_CI_FILTER']))

[jtpetty]

@vtbassmatt - Do you have any context here? Is this our recommended solution?

[vtbassmatt]

I believe we honor SKIP_CI and friends only when the commit containing that value is the tip, whether it's CI or PR. If you merge using GitHub's PR experience, for example, I don't think the SKIP_CI indicator gets included in the merge commit unless you included it in the PR message body.

[artemry-nv]

@vtbassmatt
Are there any plans to add a possibility to skip PR triggering with [skip ci] comments?

[vtbassmatt]

I believe that should also work (as long as the [skip ci] is in the head commit of the push).

[ihnorton]

@vtbassmatt it does not work. See this build, the head commit of which is https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB-Py/commit/68d937f31b761a2655e04142d503896a7c3e939d.

[vtbassmatt]

Hmm, that sounds like a bug in the service then. Could you please file a report on Developer Community?

I'm going to close this issue because the bug can't be in the agent. (The agent just runs what the service tells it to run.)

[ihnorton]

https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/714477/pr-commit-with-skip-ci-in-message-still-triggers-a.html

[vtbassmatt]

That issue has been routed to a developer to investigate. Thanks for your patience.

[Vic152]

Is this being fixed?