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Auto-cancel builds for default branch

Emil Ong

Originally asked here: https://discuss.circleci.com/t/auto-cancel-builds-on-default-branch/5536
We would like auto-cancel to apply to the default branch, specifically because we have a deploy action associated with it. The deploy is slow and multiple builds are often racing with each other and we occasionally get an older build that finishes after a newer one, leaving us with older code deployed. (This is only for a staging environment deploy in our case though.)
CCI-I-214

February 5, 2018

Esa Nuurtamo

This is a must have feature!

I think this is a business choice that CircleCi made to make more money… It is ridiculous that I have to pay for these redundant builds for default branch that do not add any value to our testing process!

Liya Ai

Merged in a post:

Auto Cancelling a Redundant Build on Default branch

Ronaldo Raivil

Have the possibility to configure a repository to auto cancel a redundant build on default branch, and not just feature branches.

CCI-I-1245

November 18, 2019

June 23, 2021

Yann

You could also implement this workaround > https://discuss.circleci.com/t/auto-cancel-redundant-builds-on-the-default-branch/39468

arnorhs

what's up with this feature? I'd really like to be able to auto-cancel the default branch build, but this issue/feature seems to have gone pretty quiet, is there a new/different approach to this these days?

Davin Ryan

With trunk based development being an important shift to delivery faster these days this is a must have feature for us

Celestine Kao

If you use AWS, check out the workflow-manager orb

Sam Minnee

This is a duplicate of https://ideas.circleci.com/ideas/CCI-I-214 you should go vote for that

Joep Kemperman

We would also like this. We don't automatically deploy our default branch, but we do have a couple projects where we often merge several PR's in a short time. Their builds take more than an hour, so this results in either a bunch of wasteful builds, or having to manually cancel these builds.

Naotoshi Seo

Same here. We use the default

master

branch as a development branch. We want to auto-cancel redundant builds.

Neil Poulin

I agree with the original poster. Or, something else that might be nice in the meantime is the ability to auto-cancel jobs are in a Holding status after X of them are in that status. Meaning, We have a bunch of builds that are awaiting prod - since they're not auto-cancelling, i'll end up with a large number of jobs waiting to be promoted to production. My suggestion is to only hang onto the last X number (3, 5, 10) of them, and cancel the rest since it's very unlikely that we'll ever promote such an old build.

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