[CORE] CI Skipping

Associated Template/Command/Core Feature request is associated with the core of COOKIETEMPLE, both it and its templates could benefit from it.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Lack of an option to skip CI workflows on commit messages could lead to rapid consumption of all minutes offered by GitHub for a free account/repository. The option to skip on commit CI would help resolve the issue, as well as speed up the dev process (since you do not need to wait for the result).

Describe the solution you’d like The solution I propose is one I used in my C++ template, as described in this feature request. To summarize, I suggest the usage of a specific “flag”, such as [skip ci]/[ci skip] in the commit message, which would prompt GH Actions not to run for that commit.

An example of generating a CI skippable commit:

git commit -m "my normal commit message [skip ci]"

Describe alternatives you’ve considered Alternatives to the proposed feature are:

• A blacklist containing files that, if changed, would not trigger the workflows,
• A whitelist containing files that, if changed, would trigger the workflows,
• Changing the trigger from on push to manual

Additional context An example of how to implement it is by adding in the job the following conditional:

jobs:
  build:  # assuming it is the job you want to skip

    runs-on: ubuntu-latest  # desired OS
    if: "!contains(github.event.head_commit.message, '[skip ci]') && !contains(github.event.head_commit.message, '[ci skip]')"

[Zethson]

Oh don’t worry.

@Imipenem will discuss this today and write down the requirements.

It’s absolutely fine if someone implements this on the next 2 weeks or so, so please don’t stress yourself.

We’ll get back to you tonight/tomorrow.

[Zethson]

I think this is something we should think about. A deployed/final product should not build if [the license] is changed. A project that is * in development*, should probably be able to “remake” itself in this case.

Yes, I agree.

@Imipenem @filipdutescu Let’s roll with this.