[skip ci] doesn't prevent pipeline running

[Ben Gannaway]

According to the instructions here: 

https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/bitbucket-pipelines-faq-827104769.html

Adding [skip ci] to the last commit message should prevent a pipeline running.

However this doesn't work. Neither does [ci skip]

Part of my pipeline increments the version number and runs this

git add -A
git commit -m "version increment [skip ci]"
git push origin master

But this triggers an infinite loop of builds. How can I stop this?

[createdbyjurand]

Do it yourself

- step
    script:
      -  if [[ ! $(git log -1 --pretty=%B) =~ (\[ci skip\])|(\[skip ci\]) ]]; then git push; fi

and leave it.

That way even if it stops working in the future, you will have bulletproof piece of code.

[Deleted user]

Hi,

That's a nice idea. I tried it but it didn't work.

Maybe a free tier pipeline won't skip steps even with that script.

[qarunqb]

Hey everyone, not sure if this is still active but adding [skip ci] at the very beginning of the commit message seemed to have worked for me. 

I can confirm with both a straight push to master and from a pull request merge. 

[Brian Bolton]

Doesn't appear to be working as of 2021-01-25

[Simen]

Same here the bug is still here and is not working

[Tessa Alexander]

Adding to the start of a commit message when pushing on a commit to a branch worked for me.

[Deleted user]

I've encountered to this problem since today. Is this a known problem? My automated skip ci commits keep triggering pipelines, using the following config.

image: node:lts
options:
  max-time: 5
pipelines:
  pull-requests:
    feature/*:
      - step:
          name: Publish
          script:
            - npm version prerelease -m "Upgrade to %s [skip ci]"
            - git push && git push --tags
            - pipe: atlassian/npm-publish:0.2.0
              variables:
                NPM_TOKEN: $NPM_TOKEN

afaik this is just basic pipelines configurations? 

This is a screenshot of the pipelines overview page with the commit message containing [skip ci]

[Deleted user]

To all readers,

this problem is caused by a bug in pipelines. See this ticket for progress: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BCLOUD-17676

[Daniel Santos]

Yes, this bug was reported in different comment above, but the link redirect was affected due to a recent change in our issue system. Thank you for adding the new link here.

[Diego Marmol]

Any update regarding this ticket? I'm experiencing the same issue with the following config in my bitbucket-pipelines.yml

- yarn version --patch # Update patch version
- echo "Made a change in build ${BITBUCKET_BUILD_NUMBER}"
- git status
- git push
- git commit ./package.json -m "[skip CI] Patch version increment"
- git push origin de 

 The CI proccess keeps re-triggering itself until my free minutes usage of pipelines run out.

[Daniel Santos]

Hi @Diego Marmol

The bug will affect a pipeline built for pull-request, but should not affect the ones running for the branch.

I see you are using 

[skip CI]

instead of

[skip ci]

If this is not a pull request issue, it could be the way "skip ci" is written.

[Le Phuong]

@Daniel Santos [skip ci] seems to be not working with pull request trigger.

[Daniel Santos]

Hi @Le Phuong

Can you confirm that the [skip ci] token is part of your merge commit for the pull request?

[Le Phuong]

Yes it is.

[Daniel Santos]

Hi @Le Phuong

As you can see in the support ticket you already submitted to our team, this is indeed a bug, more precisely this one [BCLOUD-17676] - Pull-request pipelines run with [skip ci].
The branch builds will be skipped but the pull request build will still run, unfortunately.

I think that explains this behavior.

[Daniel Santos]

Hi @Ben Gannaway,

I was able to see the feature working fine with the following bitbucket-pipelines.yml script:

pipelines:
  default:
    - step:
        script:
          - echo test >> test.txt
          - git add -A
          - git commit -m "version increment [skip ci]"
          - git push origin master

Any change to a branch in my repository will trigger just one build and create a new commit with one more test on test.txt file.

Can you share more details on:

1. How is the bitbucket-pipelines.yml in your branches? Is this file in synch across branches?
2. Do you mind sharing your bitbucket-pipelines.yml? (please hide any private information you have)