Execute hourly job only when there are commits

[Sathya Kavacheri]

Hi,

I have an hourly pipeline job. Currently it runs every hour even when no checkin has been made. Is it possible for the hourly job to be executed only when a change has been checked in ? I tried the condition -> changesets -> includePaths & it didn't help.

Here's the snippet of my bitbucket-pipelines.yml.

• The hourly job uses the custom:scheduled
• The custom:default is for on-demand builds.

definitions:
  steps:
    - step: &build
      max-time: 30 # set a 30 minute timeout
      name: Build & Test
      size: 2x
      caches:
        - gradle

      script:
        - utils/build-scripts/setup-image.sh
        - BASH_ENV=utils/build-scripts/bashrc bash ./gradlew -no-daemon dist
        - utils/build-scripts/upload-distribution.sh


pipelines:
  custom:
    default: # runs even with no change
      - step: *build

  scheduled: # runs this only on a schedule & only if there are changes
    - step: *build
      condition:
        changesets:
          includePaths:
            # run only when any changes found
            - "**"

Thanks! 

[Theodora Boudale · Accepted solution]

Hi Sathya!

I'm afraid that this is not possible at the moment. The condition -> changesets -> includePaths is not going to work, because what it does is check if the commit that the build is running for has changes in the files you specified. It won't check for changes since the last build.

We have an open feature request for what you are asking:

• https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BCLOUD-22413

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Theodora