Filters on branches does not work as expected

[Anne-Gaelle]

Hello,

I try to launch circleci on all the github branches of my project , except one, without success.

What I expect : don’t run circleci on my “gh-pages” branch. In all others cases, run circleci.
What I tried : filters with “ignore” or “only” value + read all the topics about filters errors and tried every responses.

My conf file is very simple, I really don’t understand why it does not work :

version: 2.1

workflows:
  version: 2
  build-and-test:
    jobs:
      - build-and-test:
          filters:
            branches:
              ignore:
                - gh-pages

jobs:
  build-and-test:
    docker:
      - image: circleci/node:12.14.0-browsers
    steps:
      - checkout
      - run: npm ci
      - run: npm test

I have tried many other variants, for example :

      - build-and-test:
          filters:
            branches:
              ignore: gh-pages
              only:
                - dev
                - /tech-.*/
                - /feature-.*/

But every times I got my circleci running after updating my “gh-pages” branch …

How to make the filters work as expected?

If it can help, here is my project link : https://github.com/1024pix/pix-ui

[Henna]

Hi @Anne-Gaelle,

It looks like this error might be caused by not having a config.yml file in your gh-pages branch of your repo. Adding a config.yml file should resolve your issue. Can you give it a try and let me know how it goes.

[Anne-Gaelle]

Hi Henna,

Thank you very much for your answer.
I didn’t think it would be necessary to dupplicate config.yml to my gh-pages.

As the content of my gh-pages is generated automatically, it’s a bit annoying to have to add the config each time. So for now, I will put the tag [skip ci] in my commits for the gh-pages.

Thanks a lot.

[Henna]

You are very welcome. Feel free to follow up here if any additional questions come up.