15 Nov 2012 · Semaphore News

    Skip those builds

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    Sometimes when you’re using Semaphore you want to skip building some commits or branches. Here’s how you can easily accomplish that.

    If you’d like your commit, or a series of commits that you’re pushing, to not trigger a build, just write [ci skip] somewhere in your commit’s message. This useful for designers, for example:

    Today we’re launching a way to turn off or filter automatic builds on new branches. You can either turn off automatic builds of new branches, or you can specify a whitelist of allowed regular expressions. In that case a new branch will be built only if it matches one of the entries. You’ll find this in your project settings:

    Happy building!

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    Marko Anastasov is a software engineer, author, and co-founder of Semaphore. He worked on building and scaling Semaphore from an idea to a cloud-based platform used by some of the world’s engineering teams.