How to cancel/not execute Bitbucket Pipelines builds based on a condition?

[Alejandro Cotilla]

I want to update my yml file to ignore commits from certain users. Is this possible? Is there a similar solution? Ideally I wouldn't even want to trigger the build in the first place.

Pseudo code example of yml file (ignore syntax, I'm just showcasing what I'm trying to do)

user = git show -s --format='%ae' $BITBUCKET_COMMIT
unwantedUser = "person@mail.com"

pipelines:
 tags:
   '**' && user != unwantedUser:
     - step:
         script:
           (...)

What would be the actual syntax to achieve that?

[Alejandro Cotilla]

I ended up including the [skip ci] string in my commit messages to avoid triggering the pipeline.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/53162706/1792699

[Patrick Nelson]

Thanks for taking a moment to answer your own question!