Hi, I want to skip a job if the last commit message started with a certain string.

The best we could come up with so far is to have the following as the first step:

# Is this a version change commit?
      - shell: bash
        id: commit_message
        run: |
          commit_message=$(git log --format=%B -n 1 ${{ github.sha }})
          echo "::set-output name=commit_message::$commit_message"

After which we include this condition on every following step:

if: startsWith(steps.commit_message.outputs.commit_message, 'Version change')

However, this is verbose and prone to error if we forget the if on any subsequent step.

I’ve tried using a job-level conditional to check the output of a command or script, but it doesn’t seem possible within an expression.

Maybe someone has other ideas on how to accomplish what I’m trying to do?

Thanks!