On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 05:15:44PM -0600, Taylor Blau wrote: > > If this is only a reaction to what I said earlier (i.e. "building > > everything in github.com/gitster/git/ has no value to me"), then I > > suspect it may be an over-engineered solution to a problem that does > > not exist, and harms people like you. I could just go there and > > turn off GitHub Actions for that repository instead. > > It is a reaction to that, yes. It would be nice to have a middle-ground > where you can run Actions on the official integration branches, but > contributors such as myself run Actions on *every* branch of their fork. The problem is that there is no way for people to _not_ run on every branch of their fork, then. It is either every branch or no branches. By choosing a prefix, it gives people the option to choose. But it does place the burden on them of adding an extra refspec: refs/heads/*:refs/heads/for-ci/* or similar. I don't like it, but I don't see any other way to let people choose some branches but not others (that doesn't involve a one-line yaml change at the beginning of every branch, which is an even higher burden). -Peff
