How to exclude a git branch from being built in travis?

Question

I have a github project that I'm building with travis. https://travis-ci.org/emmby/greenDAO/branches

I want travis to build most of the branches in that project, but there's one in particular that I wish to exclude.

So I added the following to .travis.yml on my master branch:

branches:
  except:
    - mvn-repo

However, that didn't disable building of the branch. So reading up on the docs, I came across this note:

Please note that currently (for historical reasons), .travis.yml needs to be present on all active branches of your project.

So, I went ahead and created a .travis.yml file in the mvn-repo branch which contains the same branches section. However, travis still insists on building and failing my mvn-repo branch.

Why is travis trying to build a branch that I've marked for exclusion?

Answer 1

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