On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 10:47:50 GMT, Robin Westberg <rwestb...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Normally when running GitHub Actions on a pull request, what is checked out > is the merge of the pull request with the latest changes on the target > branch. This ensure that what is tested is as close as possible to what will > actually be the result of integrating said pull request. > > In our use of GitHub Actions, we don't run directly on pull requests but > instead allow contributors to run them in their own personal forks. In that > context, there is no notion of a target branch. However, we can infer the > target project and branch by encoding this in the workflow file. This allows > us to perform the same merge manually, and achieve the same behaviour. > > The change also adds an option to disable this automated merge when launching > the workflow manually, which could be useful when investigating unexpected > test failures. > > Note that downstream projects picking up this change will have to adapt the > workflow file to keep using these actions for pre-submit testing. This has > been a common request from downstream projects, but could also be done in a > separate change (or not at all). This pull request has been closed without being integrated. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1801
