= Hold Continuous Integration =

**Summary**: How to prevent pipelines to trigger in Azure DevOps Server 2018. \\
**Date**: Around 2020 \\
**Refactor**: 29 April 2025: Checked links and formatting. Rebranded Team Foundation Server (TFS) to Azure Devops Server. \\
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If you're working with [[tfs2018]] and have enabled Continuous Integration it could be considered undesirable that an automatic build is run each time you make a change. For example, if you only changes some comments you don't have to run a build to know it's still working. If you'd need that, simply add {{{***NO_CI***}}} to the comment to prevent the build from starting. It is enough to add the section, you don't have to replace the entire comment section. So for example,

<code>
Changed file powerscript.ps1, added some comments. ***NO_CI***
</code>

will simply work.
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If you're working with a build file you can also use the $(NoCICheckinComment) property in the build file.

See [[https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/build/triggers?view=azure-devops&tabs=yaml |here]] for even more options.