Define no-sources files for Gitlab CI

Question

Is it possible to specify no-sources files that should not trigger the Gitlab CI?

When I make changes in README.md, the pipeline triggers, thought that file is only the documentation inside the gitlab and is not packaged in anz output artifact.

Answer 1

You can control when each of your jobs is added to a running pipeline using the only, except, or rules keywords. The easiest way to prevent jobs from running when only the README is changed is with except:

build_job:
  stage: build
  except:
    changes:
      - README.md

With this job syntax, if the only file that changes in a push is README.md, this job will not run. Unfortunately you can only set these rules at a job level, not the pipeline level so you'd have to put this in each of your jobs to prevent them all from running.