Skip CI or noCICD type comment

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• I'd be willing to implement this feature (contributing guide)

Describe the user story
We have a set of terraform plans that on completion creates config files which are then commited via workflow steps.

The issue we have is that we use autoplan and automerge. Upon the commit atlantis re-runs the plan even though no .tf files have been edited. Our created files are only .yml. This commit and autoplan blocks the automerge from completing.

Example atlantis.yaml

---
version: 3
automerge: true

projects:
- name: project name
  dir: ./project
  workspace: default
  delete_source_branch_on_merge: true
  autoplan:
    when_modified: ["*.tf"]
    enabled: true
  apply_requirements: [mergeable]
  workflow: deployment_workflow

workflows
  deployment_workflow:
    plan:
      steps: [init, plan]
    apply:
      steps:
        - apply
        - run: |
            #!/bin/bash
            set -euxo pipefail

            cd $DIR/..
            if ! git diff --exit-code; then
              git add .
              git commit -m "chore: Adding terraform generated files" --author="atlantis <[email protected]>"
              git push
            fi

Describe the solution you'd like
Is there any way of adding a commit flag that will skip the autoplan? something like "SkipCI" or "noCICD"

To work around this we have turned off auto plan. Ideally we would like to keep this enabled to keep required steps to a minimum.

[mohit-nagaraj]

sure this looks interesting to work on

[mohit-nagaraj]

[skip ci] text in commit should be able to cancel running of it