Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] CI: limit GitHub Actions to designated branches

> On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 03:58:24PM -0600, Taylor Blau wrote:
>
> > Huh; I'm not sure that I'm sold on the idea of a 'for-ci' namespace
> > here. In addition to running 'make test' on patches locally before I
> > send them, I find it tremendously convenient for GitHub to run them for
> > me when I push 'tb/' branches up to 'ttaylorr/git'.
> >
> > So, while the above is more-or-less what I'd expect the monitored list
> > of branches to look like (at least, ignoring the missing 'for-ci/**'
> > bits), I wish that I could also build every branch that I push up to my
> > fork.
> >
> > Of course, I don't want to maintain a one-patch difference between
> > ttaylorr/git@master and git/git@master, so I wonder if we could get a
> > little more creative with these rules and actually run Actions on
> > *every* branch, but introduce a new first step which stops the rest of
> > the actions run (so that in practice we're not running CI on
> > non-integration branches in Junio's tree).
>
> I don't understand what that would accomplish. If we ran the actions on
> every branch but stopped the run, then you wouldn't get the CI results
> you want. What am I missing?