Setting for empty commits on path condition

docs/docs/20-usage/20-workflow-syntax.md

@@ -402,16 +402,19 @@ when:
 
 You can use [glob patterns](https://github.com/bmatcuk/doublestar#patterns) to match the changed files and specify if the step should run if a file matching that pattern has been changed `include` or if some files have **not** been changed `exclude`.
 
+For pipelines without file changes (empty commits or on events without file changes like `tag`), you can use `on_empty` to set whether this condition should be **true** _(default)_ or **false** in these cases.
+
 ```yaml
 when:
   - path:
       include: ['.woodpecker/*.yaml', '*.ini']
       exclude: ['*.md', 'docs/**']
       ignore_message: '[ALL]'
+      on_empty: true
 ```
 
 :::info
-Passing a defined ignore-message like `[ALL]` inside the commit message will ignore all path conditions.
+Passing a defined ignore-message like `[ALL]` inside the commit message will ignore all path conditions and the `on_empty` setting.
 :::
 
 #### `evaluate`

pipeline/frontend/yaml/constraint/constraint.go

@@ -69,7 +69,8 @@ type (
 	Path struct {
 		Include       []string
 		Exclude       []string
-		IgnoreMessage string `yaml:"ignore_message,omitempty"`
+		IgnoreMessage string                 `yaml:"ignore_message,omitempty"`
+		OnEmpty       yamlBaseTypes.BoolTrue `yaml:"on_empty,omitempty"`
 	}
 )
 
@@ -331,6 +332,7 @@ func (c *Path) UnmarshalYAML(value *yaml.Node) error {
 		Include       yamlBaseTypes.StringOrSlice `yaml:"include,omitempty"`
 		Exclude       yamlBaseTypes.StringOrSlice `yaml:"exclude,omitempty"`
 		IgnoreMessage string                      `yaml:"ignore_message,omitempty"`
+		OnEmpty       yamlBaseTypes.BoolTrue      `yaml:"on_empty,omitempty"`
 	}{}
 
 	var out2 yamlBaseTypes.StringOrSlice
@@ -340,6 +342,7 @@ func (c *Path) UnmarshalYAML(value *yaml.Node) error {
 
 	c.Exclude = out1.Exclude
 	c.IgnoreMessage = out1.IgnoreMessage
+	c.OnEmpty = out1.OnEmpty
 	c.Include = append( //nolint:gocritic
 		out1.Include,
 		out2...,
@@ -361,9 +364,9 @@ func (c *Path) Match(v []string, message string) bool {
 		return true
 	}
 
-	// always match if there are no commit files (empty commit)
+	// return value based on 'on_empty', if there are no commit files (empty commit)
 	if len(v) == 0 {
-		return true
+		return c.OnEmpty.Bool()
 	}
 
 	if len(c.Exclude) > 0 && c.Excludes(v) {

pipeline/frontend/yaml/constraint/constraint_test.go

@@ -260,6 +260,16 @@ func TestConstraintList(t *testing.T) {
 			with: []string{},
 			want: true,
 		},
+		{
+			conf: "{ include: [ README.md ], on_empty: false }",
+			with: []string{},
+			want: false,
+		},
+		{
+			conf: "{ include: [ README.md ], on_empty: true }",
+			with: []string{},
+			want: true,
+		},
 	}
 	for _, test := range testdata {
 		c := parseConstraintPath(t, test.conf)

pipeline/frontend/yaml/linter/schema/.woodpecker/test-when.yaml

@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ steps:
         include: ['.woodpecker/*.yml', '*.ini']
         exclude: ['*.md', 'docs/**']
         ignore_message: '[ALL]'
+        on_empty: true
 
   when-repo:
     image: alpine

pipeline/frontend/yaml/linter/schema/schema.json

@@ -288,6 +288,9 @@
                 },
                 "ignore_message": {
                   "type": "string"
+                },
+                "on_empty": {
+                  "type": "boolean"
                 }
               },
               "additionalProperties": false
@@ -493,6 +496,9 @@
                 },
                 "ignore_message": {
                   "type": "string"
+                },
+                "on_empty": {
+                  "type": "boolean"
                 }
               },
               "additionalProperties": false