Errors on Netlify side and github CI failure status on ignored builds?

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We have our site set up to ignore builds unless there have been changes to content in certain directories. It looks like this is causing some sort of error on the Netlify side and failing CI on github.

I would expect an ignored build to just silently exit without building the site (but not have errors) and return a successful CI response?

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Hey @mjankowski,

I don’t suppose you could provide a link to your site, along with the build commands and a log of the error from your deploy?

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Example failing deploy - Netlify App

It’s a private repo on GH so I can’t provide link to it, but the thing happening is that the CI status reported back by Netlify is showing up as failing on GH on builds where the “ignore” instruction tells Netlify to not deploy.

The repo in question has a bunch of folders in it and we only want to build when the content in the /benefits/ folder changes. There is a /docs/ dir which is set up as the base dir on Netlify and has this section in it’s netlify.toml

[build]
  base = "docs"
  command = "bin/prepare_build.sh && bin/build"
  ignore = "git diff --quiet HEAD^ HEAD -- ../benefits/ ."
  publish = "_site"

The intention is to only publish the site when there’s been a change within benefits dir, and to ignore other changes to content elsewhere in the repo.

Deploy log:

4:37:53 PM: Build ready to start
4:37:56 PM: build-image version: 2dbd444fcdce00cf06325060a8238d5ae3e86774
4:37:56 PM: build-image tag: v3.3.7
4:37:56 PM: buildbot version: 11918e084194721d200458438c92ff8180b3b56c
4:37:56 PM: Fetching cached dependencies
4:37:56 PM: Starting to download cache of 458.1MB
4:37:59 PM: Finished downloading cache in 2.664932051s
4:37:59 PM: Starting to extract cache
4:38:06 PM: Finished extracting cache in 7.165542338s
4:38:06 PM: Finished fetching cache in 10.037521401s
4:38:06 PM: Starting to prepare the repo for build
4:38:07 PM: Preparing Git Reference refs/heads/master
4:38:09 PM: Found Netlify configuration file netlify.toml in build directory docs
4:38:09 PM: Found Netlify configuration file(s). Overriding site configuration
4:38:09 PM: Found Netlify configuration file in base dir docs. Overriding previous configuration file.
4:38:09 PM: Found Netlify configuration file in base directory: docs. Overriding existing configuration
4:38:09 PM: Detected ignore command in Netlify configuration file. Proceeding with the specified command: 'git diff --quiet HEAD^ HEAD -- ../benefits/ .'
4:38:09 PM: User-specified ignore command returned exit code 0. Returning early from build.
4:38:09 PM: failed during stage 'checking build content for changes': Canceled build due to no content change
4:38:09 PM: Failing build: Failed to check build content change
4:38:09 PM: Finished processing build request in 13.228496511s
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Hi, @mjankowski, behind the scenes there are only two “finished” states for a deploy: success or error. So all cancelled builds are considered error builds at this time.

There is an open feature request to support a distinct “cancelled” finished state. We have that feature request cross-linked to this community topic for tracking. If/when this feature is created, post an update here to let you know about it.

​Please let us know if there are other questions about this.

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Ok, thanks - noted on the two state thing. We will either coach our team to ignore those failures when they haven’t edited content in the relevant directory, or maybe we’ll just drop the ignore config.

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