Issue cloned from here
http://issues.hudson-ci.org/browse/HUDSON-8014
Hudson: 2.2.1
Git Plugin: 2.2.1
I personally am using Included Regions without Excluded Regions, but experiencing the same problem. When a commit is directly made to master, then the included regions settings work properly; when a merge is performed, there will always be a build regardless the included regions settings.
I tried restarting hudson but no magic showed up.