From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 10:49:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] replacing ci/config/allow-ref with a repo variable
Message-ID: <9f59df48-77be-485b-9208-6e2082af5963@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20230914003010.GA1709842@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On 14/09/2023 01:30, Jeff King wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 04:16:48PM +0100, Phillip Wood wrote:
> We can do the loop-unroll thing if we really want to support multiple
> prefixes, but if you're OK with it, let's try the single-prefix way and
> see if anybody runs into problems (I'm still convinced there's only a
> few of us using this stuff anyway). I'm hesitant to do the unroll just
> because it requires picking a maximum value, with a bizarre failure if
> you happen to have 4 prefixes or whatever.

Lets start with a single-prefix and see if anyone complains

>> Aside: what I'd really like is to be able to set an environment variable
>> when I push to skip or force the CI
>>
>> 	GITHUB_SKIP_CI=1 git push github ...
>>
>> but that would require support from the git client, the protocol and the
>> server.
> 
> We have the necessary bits at the protocol: push-options. But it's up to
> the server-side hooks to decide which ones are meaningful and to do
> something useful with them. It looks like GitLab supports:
> 
>    git push -o ci.skip=1 ...

Oh I didn't know about that

> but I don't think GitHub respects any equivalent option.

That's a shame

Best Wishes

Phillip