diff --git a/.circleci/create_circleci_config.py b/.circleci/create_circleci_config.py
index 1427b08a964a9c..3f2c6df394e8eb 100644
--- a/.circleci/create_circleci_config.py
+++ b/.circleci/create_circleci_config.py
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ def __post_init__(self):
         else:
             # BIG HACK WILL REMOVE ONCE FETCHER IS UPDATED
             print(os.environ.get("GIT_COMMIT_MESSAGE"))
-            if "[build-ci-image]" in os.environ.get("GIT_COMMIT_MESSAGE", "") or "dev" in  os.environ.get("GIT_COMMIT_MESSAGE", ""):
+            if "[build-ci-image]" in os.environ.get("GIT_COMMIT_MESSAGE", "") or os.environ.get("GIT_COMMIT_MESSAGE", "") == "dev-ci":
                 self.docker_image[0]["image"] = f"{self.docker_image[0]['image']}:dev"
             print(f"Using {self.docker_image} docker image")
         if self.install_steps is None:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-ci-docker-images.yml b/.github/workflows/build-ci-docker-images.yml
index 6d6df220e4461e..6f29df82769d82 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-ci-docker-images.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-ci-docker-images.yml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ jobs:
       - 
         name: Set tag
         run: |
-              if [ ${{contains(github.event.head_commit.message, '[build-ci-image]')}} ]; then
+              if ${{contains(github.event.head_commit.message, '[build-ci-image]')}}; then
                   echo "TAG=huggingface/transformers-${{ matrix.file }}:dev" >> "$GITHUB_ENV" 
                   echo "setting it to DEV!"
               else