From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org,
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ci: avoid unnecessary builds
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2022 22:23:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y2R3vJf1A2KOZwA7@nand.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <221104.86bkpnzdqi.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>
On Fri, Nov 04, 2022 at 02:46:23AM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> > This is particularly problematic in the case of Pull Requests where a
> > single contributor can easily (inadvertently) prevent timely builds for
> > other contributors.
>
> The "timely" being an issue in git/git and/or gitgitgadget where CI time
> is a shared resource, but not in a <someuser>/git running CI just for
> <someuser>?
Yup, agreed.
> > To help with this situation, let's use the `concurrency` feature of
> > GitHub workflows, essentially canceling GitHub workflow runs that are
> > obsoleted by more recent runs:
> > https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#concurrency
>
> In my own fork I very much use this concurrency not-cancel-in-progress
> intentionally.
Interesting. I noted basically the opposite in my earlier reply[1] to
Johannes, where the behavior I want is that newer pushes of the same
topic supersede older ones that are currently in progress.
But I think you make a compelling point (which doesn't match my own
workflow, but I can see the utility of nonetheless).
I was thinking that we could rely on something similar to the ci-config
ref stuff from back in e76eec35540 (ci: allow per-branch config for
GitHub Actions, 2020-05-07), but it looks like it'll be a little
trickier than that, maybe impossible.
We need to know about the state of the ci-config branch before we set
the concurrency bits. So I think you *could* do something like:
--- >8 ---
diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml
index 4fdf4d3552..f1ca364f96 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/main.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml
@@ -2,11 +2,6 @@ name: CI
on: [push, pull_request]
-# Avoid unnecessary builds
-concurrency:
- group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
- cancel-in-progress: true
-
env:
DEVELOPER: 1
@@ -39,7 +34,14 @@ jobs:
then
enabled=no
fi
+ skip_concurrent=yes
+ if test -x config-repo/ci/config/skip-concurrent &&
+ ! config-repo/ci/config/skip-concurrent '${{ github.ref }}'
+ then
+ skip_concurrent=no
+ fi
echo "::set-output name=enabled::$enabled"
+ echo "::set-output name=skip_concurrent::$skip_concurrent"
- name: skip if the commit or tree was already tested
id: skip-if-redundant
uses: actions/github-script@v3
@@ -86,6 +88,9 @@ jobs:
name: win build
needs: ci-config
if: needs.ci-config.outputs.enabled == 'yes'
+ concurrency:
+ group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+ cancel-in-progress: needs.ci-config.outputs.skip_concurrent = 'yes'
runs-on: windows-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
--- 8< ---
...and similar "concurrency" blocks in each of the other jobs to define
the settings at the job level instead of at the workflow level.
So, it's doable, but a little gross. At the very least, it would satisfy
Ævar's workflow requirements, too, since he could write a script that
exits with non-zero status to avoid the new behavior.
Thanks,
Taylor
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/Y2R0YrQzKaUZzaPB@nand.local/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-04 2:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-03 13:34 [PATCH] ci: avoid unnecessary builds Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2022-11-04 1:46 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-11-04 2:23 ` Taylor Blau [this message]
2022-11-04 3:20 ` Jeff King
2022-11-08 9:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-11-09 14:00 ` Jeff King
2022-11-10 2:40 ` Taylor Blau
2022-11-04 2:09 ` Taylor Blau
2022-11-07 19:45 ` Derrick Stolee
2022-11-07 19:53 ` Taylor Blau
2022-11-07 20:08 ` Derrick Stolee
2022-11-07 21:03 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-11-07 21:59 ` Derrick Stolee
2022-11-07 22:44 ` Taylor Blau
2022-11-08 8:18 ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-11-08 18:30 ` Taylor Blau
2022-11-07 22:56 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-11-08 0:02 ` Derrick Stolee
2022-11-08 0:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-11-08 9:51 ` Johannes Schindelin
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