Is there a way to commit to Azure Dev Ops repositories without triggering pipelines?

Question

I have code stored inside various branches an Azure Dev Ops git repository.

Is it possible that a developer can somehow push to a branch, passing some sort of command line flag, that will stop any pipelines executing for that branch?

I have a number of pipelines that are set to run when changes are detected to my branches.

Workflow:

1. Developer pulls down branch (e.g. features/abc)
2. Developer pushes changes to that branch

My pipeline.yml file is then set up as follows:

trigger:
  batch: true
  branches:
    include:
    - features/*

When the developer pushes to the feature/abc that will start the pipeline.

I am wondering if there is some sort of flag I can set on the command line when I enter git push that will stop the pipeline from executing.

Answer 1

Yeah this is possible, one such way is to include [skip ci] in the commit message.

A full list of ways can be found in the documentation under the section header "Skipping CI for individual pushes"