azure-pipelines-agent: Tag exclusion in yaml trigger definition

Have you tried trouble shooting?

yes

Agent Version and Platform

2.134.2, CentOS 7

VSTS Type and Version

VisualStudio.com

What’s not working?

I have a yaml definition

trigger:
  branches:
    include:
    - master
    exclude:
    - tags/*
    - refs/tags/*

phases:
  - phase: Test
    queue:
      name: ResSimTesting
      demands:
        - Agent.OS -equals Linux

    steps:
    - task: Bash@3
      displayName: bash me some
      inputs:
        targetType: 'inline'
        script: |
          echo hello

which runs in CI mode by default (ie leaving trigger settings in vsts ui alone). It fails to ignore the tag and try to build it

tag error

however if I whitelist master in the UI this doesn’t happen

tag error

Am I missing something here?

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 6 years ago
Comments: 28 (15 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

I have the opposite problem. When I use triggers for tagged commits, they don’t get triggered

trigger:
  branches:
    include:
      - refs/heads/master
      - refs/tags/*

domoritz on Oct 2, 2018

There were bugs around tags. I checked in fixes which are rolling out with the current deployment. It will take a couple weeks to reach all accounts. The problem was annotated tags were causing failed builds to be created, whether the file excluded tags or not (error occurred while attempting to load the yaml file)

ericsciple on Aug 3, 2018