How make travis-ci execute for some branch?

Question

I have a few branches in my repo and I have the .travis.yml file in a branch A (master branch does not have this file). But travis-CI is not starting the build for branch A. What do I need to do to run travis for this branch? When I create a Pull Request from some other branch to master, then travis starts the build.

P.S. I turned off/on Build only if .travis.yml is present but it did not help. Also I can't see any branches in Branches tab. I added

branches:   only:     -A     -master 

in the .travis.yml, but it too did not help.

Answer 1

You can try and check if it would work with a whitelist.
See "Specify branches to build"

You can either white- or blacklist branches that you want to be built:

# blacklist branches:   except:     - legacy     - experimental  # whitelist branches:   only:     - master     - stable 

Try and put A in a whitelist syntax in the travis.yml, and see if that is picked-up.