By popular demand [1], filtered pre-commit triggering is now re-enabled. Now when submitting pull request, only pre-commit tests for your affected files will run: if you change just the Go SDK, you'll no longer need to run Java pre-commits.
Last time we introduced this change it regressed our ability to run other pre-commits via trigger phrase ("Run Java PreCommit"); this is now fixed by splitting the Jenkins jobs by trigger condition [2]. Enjoy! [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f98af933ce1ffbf8ae85161dea032aab4577a600c749f46b1d85c226@%3Cdev.beam.apache.org%3E [2] https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/5757