如何排除 gitlab.ci 中的正则表达式？

Question

I need to exclude branches with the names feature/ussues- from some steps. There is a regular expression, but when I set except,rule or only, either the job always was included, or was not included at all.

Initially I tried this using rules: :

  rules:
    - if: $CI_COMMIT_BRANCH =~ '^feature\.*\/.*    
      when: never

I expected this to match on branches like feature/issues-70 , feature/issues-771 , etc.

Answer 1

The regex rule you used is slightly off. First, you need surrounding / for the regex pattern. Second, the \. in the pattern will mean to match a literal . character, which is not what you want, based on the branch names you expect to match. Lastly, you need a matching rule for the job to be created at all (the default case when your rule doesn't match).

This should match all the example branch names you provided:

rules:
  - if: $CI_COMMIT_BRANCH =~ /^feature\/.*/
    when: never
  - when: on_success # the default when the first rule doesn't match