Running GitHub Actions for Certain Commit Messages

Ryan Chandler shares how to configure your GitHub Actions Workflow in such a way that they skip a build when a certain word appears in the commit message.

jobs:
  format:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    if: "! contains(github.event.head_commit.message, 'nobuild')"

You can also flip it around, to only build whenever a specific word is present.

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