Is it able to ignore/disable the first step Get source in vNext Build?

Question

Here is our situation-- sometimes we need to run a vNext build without needing to pull any source code from TFS server.

But we don't want to change the workspace mappings. Is there a related setting simply ignore or disable the get source step in the build definition. Unlike any other task, the "Get sources" task added automatically when you create a new build definition, which is not able to disable or remove the task by right click it.

Any suggestion appreciated!

Answer 1

Update:

Now you should use below to avoid syncing sources at all:

Classic Editor: agent.source.skip=true

YAML:

steps:
- checkout: none

---

It's not able to directly disable/remove the Get Sources task. However, you could add a variable to achieve it:

Build.SyncSources = false

You can see from below screenshot, the Get Sources operation started and finished without fetching the data from TFS version control

Note: This variable works with TFS 2017 and above/VSTS vNext builds.

More detail info please take a look at this helpful blog.

Answer 2

I tried using agent.source.skip = true (instead of Build.SyncSources = false),

and it seems to keep the variables.

Found here: https://github.com/Microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent/issues/1465