| commit | 21c82dcd623a584b2f716f70eeec1db0326e46db | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Jeff King <peff@peff.net> | Wed Aug 30 15:51:13 2023 -0400 |
| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | Wed Aug 30 15:56:09 2023 -0700 |
| tree | a919fbf54b754ef0321445eb174292e9d84f7693 | |
| parent | 0d1bd1dfb37ef25e1911777c94129fc769ffec38 [diff] |
ci: allow branch selection through "vars" When we added config to skip CI for certain branches in e76eec3554 (ci: allow per-branch config for GitHub Actions, 2020-05-07), there wasn't any way to avoid spinning up a VM just to check the config. From the developer's perspective this isn't too bad, as the "skipped" branches complete successfully after running the config job (the workflow result is "success" instead of "skipped", but that is a minor lie). But we are still wasting time and GitHub's CPU to spin up a VM just to check the result of a short shell script. At the time there wasn't any way to avoid this. But they've since introduced repo-level variables that should let us do the same thing: https://github.blog/2023-01-10-introducing-required-workflows-and-configuration-variables-to-github-actions/#configuration-variables This is more efficient, and as a bonus is probably less confusing to configure (the existing system requires sticking your config on a magic ref). See the included docs for how to configure it. The code itself is pretty simple: it checks the variable and skips the config job if appropriate (and everything else depends on the config job already). There are two slight inaccuracies here: - we don't insist on branches, so this likewise applies to tag names or other refs. I think in practice this is OK, and keeping the code (and docs) short is more important than trying to be more exact. We are targeting developers of git.git and their limited workflows. - the match is done as a substring (so if you want to run CI for "foobar", then branch "foo" will accidentally match). Again, this should be OK in practice, as anybody who uses this is likely to only specify a handful of well-known names. If we want to be more exact, we can have the code check for adjoining spaces. Or even move to a more general CI_CONFIG variable formatted as JSON. I went with this scheme for the sake of simplicity. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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