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msherms
Sep 27, 2023Copper Contributor
Why does having a file named azure-pipelines.yml create a new pipeline?
Our development and build environment in production is going through some changes to easily allow builds to occur on a test instance of Azure DevOps by ghosting the production git repositories over t...
Kidd_Ip
Jul 27, 2025MVP
Unfortunately that there is no global toggle in Azure DevOps to prevent this but some workarounds like:
Rename the YAML file, before cloning into the test instance, rename the file to something like
azure-pipelines-test.yml
- mshermsJul 29, 2025Copper Contributor
Not really possible with an IT driven backup scenario. But also...why did they add a feature that's completely undocumented?? Is it documented somewhere else I haven't seen?