Re: [PATCH 1/2] ci: allow branch selection through "vars"

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sep 7, 2023, 07:47 UTC
Message-ID: <20230907074713.GA1260471@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <44a5d2d4-a6f1-7259-504e-269ee389c8ea@gmx.de>

On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 12:51:14PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Thank you for asking my opinion. The `[no ci]` support described in
> https://github.blog/changelog/2021-02-08-github-actions-skip-pull-request-and-push-workflows-with-skip-ci/
> solves the problem adequately and with a lot less complexity than the
> current or the `vars.`-based solution. In my opinion.

Unfortunately that doesn't work well for the uses cases allow-ref was meant to support, for the reasons given in e76eec3554 (ci: allow per-branch config for GitHub Actions, 2020-05-07).

-Peff