Stopping pipeline from running when a new branch is created

Sena Turku Cakmak

Hey,

1) I realised that everytime someone creates a new branch from the main branch, it automatically triggers the pipeline even though nothing was changed in the repository. It gets the commit message from the last commit and reruns the entire process in the created branch. I do not want the pipeline to be triggered unless I push my changes. I don't want the pipeline to run with every new branch. How can I do it?

 

2) There is an Other (custom name) section in bitbucket while creating the branch, how can I add that branches that falls under "Other" to the yml file to run certain steps?

Thanks in advance!

 

Ben

Hi @Sena Turku Cakmak 

1) If you have a default section configured in your YML configuration - this will trigger a build every single time a push is made to the repository.

The creation of a new branch involves pushing that new branch to the repository, hence why the build is triggered - for example this step would run on every single repository push (including when you create a new branch):

pipelines:
    default:
     - step:
        name: Test
        script:
             - echo "Hello world!"

Therefore if you didn't want builds to run whenever you create a new branch, you'll need to remove the default section.

2) Any time you wish to trigger steps when a particular branch is pushed to, you would use the branches tag and specify its relevant branch name - for example this step would only run whenever the test branch is pushed to:

pipelines:
    branches:
        test:
         - step:
           name: Hello world
           script:
                - echo "Hello world!"

You can find more information regarding YML configuration below:

• https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/bitbucket-pipelines-configuration-reference/

Hope this helps.

Cheers!

- Ben (Bitbucket Cloud Support)