For rapid prototyping, it is extremely useful to be able to say in a commit message, and have the build ready in a fraction of the time.

+1

Really need this! :/

Agreed.

I need to filter-out specific workflows unless my commit message contains some specific substring.

For example:

...workflows: version: 2 all: jobs: - build - test - deploy - update_api_docs filters: commit: only: /[update_api_docs]/

Currently, it is possible to complete this using git tags, but it feels incorrect for me to use such git tags.

And I'm required to do this kind of workaround:

...- run: name: Generate and publish API documentation command: | last_commit="$(git log -1 --pretty=%B | cat | grep update_api_docs)" if [[ ${last_commit} == ]] then # Generate and publish API docs fi

This is not the way this should work, as it requires all the preparation to be completed (such as "Spin up Environment").

Vote for this feature along withhttps://ideas.circleci.com/ideas/CCI-I-763, these should be very helpful to control tests like e2e and visual testing conditionally.

Agreed! Want to ignore test jobs for any commits that contain "hotfix" for instance, but still run our build / deploy pipeline

I agree, it would be a nice feature to have!

Would also be helpful to filter certain jobs