I have seen scenarios where I would like to not have Jenkins not execute builds under certain circumstances. One common example is with the Maven Project Plugin, it will often update the .pom file and check it back into source control. When you have Jenkins jobs that poll source code repos for new commits, your builds will enter an endless cycle of triggering more builds.
It would be nice to have the ability to stop builds from executing when the commit contained a specified phrase...
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I am the type of person who likes to build cool things that help solve some folks' problems, especially my own problems. With that said, I'm always going to look to minimize the amount of things I have to do over and over so I have more time to build cool stuff. Since I mainly create software applications, building/testing/deploying code are necessary activities - and they can be very painful.
For far too long (2000-2012) I would code away on big new features on SportsCollectors.Net f...
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