Please add “[skip CI]” etc. to GitHub Actions.
Sometimes, for trivial commits, we don’t want to set off a load of build runners.
I’m only using the GitHub Actions for open source where it’s free, but I would be annoyed to be required to use so many up.
Actually, I did recently create a private repo for testing security fixes for a projects, and it used up about 300 minutes per build (Linux and Mac, had to disable Windows as too expensive), and quickly burnt through the 2,000 minutes quota in just a few builds.
One project uses GitHub Actions, Travis CI and Appveyor. It looks quite silly when we use “[CI skip]” and Travis and Appveyor respect it, but there are 33 GitHub jobs!
Further, it’s bad for the environment to wastefully use server time.
Many other CIs let us skip builds:
Travis CI
The command should be one of the following forms:
[<KEYWORD> skip]
or
[skip <KEYWORD>]
where <KEYWORD> is either ci, travis, travis ci, travis-ci, or travisci.
https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/customizing-the-build#skipping-a-build
AppVeyor
Add [skip ci] or [ci skip] to commit message title and build won’t be triggered by AppVeyor for that commit. Or explicitly skip AppVeyor only with [skip appveyor] and still allow any other CI to build the commit (eg. Travis CI).
https://www.appveyor.com/docs/how-to/filtering-commits/#skip-directive-in-commit-message
CircleCI
By default, CircleCI automatically builds a project whenever you push changes to a version control system (VCS). You can override this behavior by adding a [ci skip] or [skip ci] tag anywhere in a commit’s title or description.
GitLab
If your commit message contains [ci skip] or [skip ci], using any capitalization, the commit will be created but the pipeline will be skipped.
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#skipping-jobs
Semaphore CI
If you’d like your commit, or a series of commits that you’re pushing, to not trigger a build, just write [ci skip] or [skip ci] somewhere in your commit’s message.
https://semaphoreci.com/docs/how-to-skip-building-for-some-commits-with-ci-skip.html
Bitbucket Pipelines
If you don’t want to run a pipeline on a commit that would normally trigger one, you can include [skip ci] or [ci skip] anywhere in your commit message of the HEAD commit. Any commits that include [skip ci] or [ci skip] in the message are ignored by Pipelines.
https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/bitbucket-pipelines-faq-827104769.html