Question

Your monorepo contains application code under `src/` and documentation under `docs/`. The CI workflow that builds and tests the application is expensive and should only run when application code (or the workflow file itself) changes — never for documentation-only pushes to the `main` branch. Which trigger configuration achieves this most correctly?

Accepted Answer

on:
  push:
    branches: [main]
    paths:
      - 'src/**'
      - '.github/workflows/ci.yml'

Answer

on:
  push:
    branches: [main]
    paths-ignore:
      - 'src/**'

Answer

on:
  push:
    branches: [main]
    paths:
      - 'docs/**'

Answer

on:
  push:
    branches: [main]
jobs:
  build:
    if: contains(github.event.head_commit.modified, 'src/')