From a31f421fa06882874ef81bc35a9bd2bcadb4567e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas A Caswell <tcaswell@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 12:03:40 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Backport PR #9286: Ask Appveyor to ignore certain branches.

---
 .appveyor.yml | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.appveyor.yml b/.appveyor.yml
index 8d8d48ad17a1..e9d977b47f8c 100644
--- a/.appveyor.yml
+++ b/.appveyor.yml
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@
 # https://github.com/rmcgibbo/python-appveyor-conda-example
 
 # Backslashes in quotes need to be escaped: \ -> "\\"
+branches:
+  except:
+    - /auto-backport-.*/
 
 environment: