Deduplicate "exclude" paths in Azure Devops YML pipelines-CodePudding

I'm writing an Azure Devops pipeline for a GitHub repository and it will include both a trigger on the main branch, and also builds for pr. Both of them will use the same exclude paths. Here's what the start of my yaml file looks like:

trigger:
  branches:
   include:
     - main
  paths:
    exclude:
      - '.gitignore'
      - '.vscode/*.*'
      - '*.md'
      - 'LICENSE'
      # etc.

pr:
  branches:
    include:
      - main
  paths:
    exclude:
      - '.gitignore'
      - '.vscode/*.*'
      - '*.md'
      - 'LICENSE'
      # etc.

Now the issue is that the exclude list can grow quite specific and extended, I expect up to 20ish items in my real world scenarios.

Is there a way to deduplicate that list? Can you use variables or templates or some other feature to factor that list out somewhere?

CodePudding user response：

Is there a way to deduplicate that list? Can you use variables or templates or some other feature to factor that list out somewhere?

I am afraid there is no such a way to deduplicate trigger filter list at this moment.

That is because the triggers should be defined in the main yaml azure pipeline instead of the nested template yaml.

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