[Debian-salsa-ci] How to skip Salsa CI to avoid unnecessary CI runs

[Tianyu Chen]

Lucas Nussbaum <lucas at debian.org> 于2025年8月25日周一 14:14写道：

> > I am all in favor of having all kinds of automation to work on
> > hundreds of packages in parallel, and it might be a good idea to run
> > the Salsa CI every once in a while even with no or just few changes to
> > validate that there are no regressions due to changes in dependencies,
> > but please limit triggering parallel Salsa CI runs to the maximum
> > amount you will be able to read/debug in case there are failures.
> >
> > If you know you are doing a minor typofix, removing a trailing space
> > etc and don't need CI at all, please pass the git option `-o ci.skip`
> > when pushing.
> >
> > Example:
> > git push -o ci.skip
>
> I'm using the GitLab REST API through python-gitlab to automate those
> commits. Do you know if there's a way to do the same thing in that case,
> other that using "[skip ci]" in the commit message, which pollutes the
> git history


Something tricky but should work might be, in Settings>CI/CD, update the
"CI/CD configuration file" field from d/salsa-ci.yml to something invalid
before doing the changes, and restoring it afterwards?

In API it would be default_ci_config_path in /application/settings.

Best regards,
Tianyu
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