Today creating a backmerge MR from prod or integ branch to any other branch triggers a pipeline
even though no change has been pushed.
Ultimately those pipelines might (re)trigger integration or production environment deployment and/or packages publication.
That might have unexpected consequences.
This change simply disables MR pipeline from prod & integ branches, enforcing branch pipelines only (i.e. when a true commit is pushed).

rewrite all '$SOME_VAR' test expressions to '($SOME_VAR != null && $SOME_VAR != "")'

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