I am trying to have a setup where I DON'T deploy if I am updating specific files on my GH repo. In other words, if I am updating my README.md , I don't wanna redeploy.

My understanding is that to do that I need to use GitHub actions, and to activate Wait for CI. The problem is that the option is only available when the project is connected to a branch, which also automatically triggers the autodeploy.

I then end up with two overlapping deployments (one from GitHub integration, the other from railway up.

I am looking for some guidance, thank you

This is my deploy.yml

---

name: Deploy to Railway

on:

  push:

    branches:

      - master

      - dev

    paths-ignore:

      - '.github/**'

      - '.tests/**'

      - '.gitignore'

      - 'app_config.wsgi'

      - 'base-requirements.txt'

      - 'deploy.py'

      - 'LICENSE'

      - 'README.md'

      - 'requirements.txt'

jobs:

  deploy:

    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:

    - name: Checkout code

      uses: actions/checkout@v2

    - name: Set up Python

      uses: actions/setup-python@v2

      with:

        python-version: '3.8'

    - name: Install Railway CLI

      run: curl -fsSL https://railway.app/install.sh | sh

    - name: Deploy to Railway

      run: |

        if [ "${GITHUB_REF}" == "refs/heads/master" ]; then

          RAILWAY_TOKEN="${{ secrets.RAILWAY_TOKEN_PROD }}" railway up --environment production --service myapp

        elif [ "${GITHUB_REF}" == "refs/heads/dev" ]; then

          RAILWAY_TOKEN="${{ secrets.RAILWAY_TOKEN_DEV }}" railway up --environment dev --service myapp

        fi