> On 11. 8. 2022, at 8:24, Yedidyah Bar David <d...@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 5:04 PM Scott Dickerson <sdick...@redhat.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 9:35 AM Michal Skrivanek <mskri...@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 21. 7. 2022, at 9:09, Yedidyah Bar David <d...@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 11:30 AM Martin Perina <mper...@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 10:27 AM Michal Skrivanek <mskri...@redhat.com> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 7. 7. 2022, at 19:28, Nir Soffer <nsof...@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 12:26 PM Yedidyah Bar David <d...@redhat.com> 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I was annoyed for some time now by the fact that when I used some
>>>>>>> github-CI-generated RPMs, with a git hash in their names, I could
>>>>>>> never find this git hash anywhere - not in my local git repo, nor in
>>>>>>> github. Why is it so? Because, if I got it right, the default for
>>>>>>> 'actions/checkout@v2' is to merge the PR HEAD with the branch HEAD.
>>>>>>> See e.g. [1]:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>   HEAD is now at 7bbb40c9a Merge
>>>>>>> 026bb9c672bf46786dd6d16f4cbe0ecfa84c531d into
>>>>>>> 35e217936b5571e9657946b47333a563373047bb
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Meaning: my patch was 026bb9c, master was 35e2179, and the generated
>>>>>>> RPMs will have 7bbb40c9a, not to be found anywhere else. If you check
>>>>>>> the main PR page [3], you can find there '026bb9c', but not
>>>>>>> '7bbb40c9a'.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> (Even 026bb9c might require some effort, e.g. "didib force-pushed the
>>>>>>> add-hook-log-console branch 2 times, most recently from c90e658 to
>>>>>>> 66ebc88 yesterday". I guess this is the result of github discouraging
>>>>>>> force-pushes, in direct opposite of gerrit, which had a notion of
>>>>>>> different patchsets for a single change. I already ranted about this
>>>>>>> in the past, but that's not the subject of the current message).
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> This is not just an annoyance, it's a real difference in semantics. In
>>>>>>> gerrit/jenkins days, IIRC most/all projects I worked on, ran CI
>>>>>>> testing/building on the pushed HEAD, and didn't touch it. Rebase, if
>>>>>>> at all, happened either explicitly, or at merge time.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I don't think that the action *rebases* the pr, it uses a merge commit
>>>>>> but this adds newer commits on master on top of the pr, which may
>>>>>> conflict or change the semantics of the pr.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> actions/checkout's default, to auto-merge, is probably meant to be
>>>>>>> more "careful" - to test what would happen if the code is merged. I
>>>>>>> agree this makes sense. But I personally think it's almost always ok
>>>>>>> to test on the pushed HEAD and not rebase/merge _implicitely_.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> What do you think?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I agree, this is unexpected and unwanted behavior in particular for
>>>>>> projects that disable merge commits (e.g. vdsm).
>>>>> 
>>>>> merge commits are disabled for all oVirt projects as per 
>>>>> https://www.ovirt.org/develop/developer-guide/migrating_to_github.html
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> It should be easy to change, using [2]:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> - uses: actions/checkout@v2
>>>>>>> with:
>>>>>>>   ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
>>>>> 
>>>>> we can really just create a trivial wrapper and replace globally with e.g.
>>>>> - uses: ovirt/checkout
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> +1
>>>> 
>>>> As this needs to be included in each project separately, then I'd say 
>>>> let's minimize available options to ensure maximum consistency across all 
>>>> oVirt projects
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 1. I don't know how, and would have to learn quite a bit of github, to do 
>>> this. That's the main reason I neglected this in my TODO folder and didn't 
>>> reply yet. Perhaps someone already did something similar and would like to 
>>> take over?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Take a look at https://github.com/oVirt/upload-rpms-action
>>> minus tests (I hope Janos is not looking)...that makes it a new repo, and 
>>> license, readme, and yaml file with that snippet. that's it.
> 
> I am hesitant about the value of this exercise, but with Martin's
> encouragement decided to try, and it seems to work indeed:
> 
> https://github.com/didib/checkout-head-sha
> https://github.com/didib/test-checkout/pull/2
> 
> Check the output of 'git log' in the check - it shows the PR hash.
> 
> So please create a repo (e.g. oVirt/checkout or whatever) and I'll
> push a PR there.

https://github.com/oVirt/checkout-action 
<https://github.com/oVirt/checkout-action>
you have Write permissions there

> 
> Didn't add test code :-).
> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 2. I already pushed (2 weeks ago) and merged (yesterday) to otopi, [1], 
>>> which simply does the above.
>>> 
>>> 3. Scott now pushed [2], to the engine, doing the same, and I agree with 
>>> him. So am going to merge it soon, unless there are objections. If 
>>> eventually someone creates an oVirt action for this, we can always update 
>>> to use it.
>>> 
>> 
>> And just to add a bit more fuel to the fire: back in the old days when 
>> jenkins was running CI for ovirt-web-ui, there were more hoops to jump 
>> through to get the PR head commit instead of the PR merge commit when 
>> running builds.  My solution there, and that still works with the github 
>> actions, is: 
>> https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-web-ui/blob/3903152852dc8a9d44484cbdc5c80de45774f090/automation/build.sh#L23-L33
>> 
>>> 
>>> Best regards,
>>> 
>>> [1] https://github.com/oVirt/otopi/pull/25
>>> 
>>> [2] https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-engine/pull/543
> 
> I merged this yesterday, while starting writing my current reply but
> before deciding to try the above :-). Can change later.
> 
> Best regards,
> --
> Didi
> 

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