Triggering a job on a commit with tag

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I have 3 different jobs:

  1. Runs the tests
  2. Builds and uploads the app to TestFlight
  3. Submits the app to AppStore Review

The following snippet represents the workflow:

workflows:
  test-upload-submit:
    jobs:
      - run-tests:
          filters: &filters-release # this yaml anchor sets filter configs to "filters-release"
            branches:
              only:
                - /release\/.*/

      - run-upload:
          requires:
            - run-tests
          filters:
            <<: *filters-release # calls the previously set yaml anchor.

      - run-submit:
          requires:
            - run-upload
          filters: 
            tags:
              only: 
                - /^v.*/

What I want to achieve: When I create an annotated tag, then push it to GitHub using git push --follow-tags I want CI to run all the jobs. But, when I push changes without tags, it should only upload a built to TestFlight. The problem is, the 3rd job is being triggered even I push without tags. Any help appreciated

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Yes, the way I’ve had it explained to me is that the filters section works like an implicit OR between tags and branches, and missing (either one of those) essentially means *.

What I believe you need is for your run-submit job to look like this:

          filters: 
            tags:
              only: 
                - /^v.*/
            branches:
              ignore: /.*/

I had this exact situation today, and adding the branches part was the key for me. Hopefully it is for you too!