Make regression tests only run on main

[hsutter]

I think this is the right way to express they should run on main and PRs on main... it doesn't need to run on the docs branch.

@jarzec does this diff look right to accomplish that?

[jarzec]

LGTM

[gregmarr]

The types should not be needed here.

if no activity types are specified, the workflow runs when a pull request is opened or reopened or when the head branch of the pull request is updated.

[gregmarr]

That does mean what you described. Whether or not that is what is actually desirable is debatable. Since you're the only one working directly in this repo, and you only work on main, then I think that does make sense. If there were other people working on other branches, then you'd want to include those other branches as well.

[hsutter]

Thanks!

Note that I copied this from the compiler test workflow, so this is making those two workflows consistent.

The immediate issue I'm trying to debug why MkDocs's workflow (which I've also called docs, maybe I'm creating an overload problem?) isn't working in CI when it works fine locally on my box, and although I suspect a different Pages workflow might be interfering I'm trying to eliminate this as a possible cause. Secondarily, even though the docs branch currently has a copy of all the code, I'm only making /docs changes there so it's kind of a waste to run regressions there too.

[jarzec]

You can in fact just exclude the docs branch (if that is what is intended) as follows:

on:
  pull_request:
    branches-ignore:
      - docs
  push:
    branches-ignore:
      - docs

[jarzec]

You can in fact just exclude the docs branch (if that is what is intended) as follows:

on:
  pull_request:
    branches-ignore:
      - docs
  push:
    branches-ignore:
      - docs

@hsutter Would it be fine for you to go with my proposition of excluding docs? @gregmarr has a point, e.g. when preparing PRs it is very useful to easily run regression tests on branches other than main in forked repos. I did that a lot.

[hsutter]

@jarzec OK, done with 0d40c68 -- please check?

[jarzec]

@hsutter The update seems to work. However you still have regression tests running on your docs branch. The reason is that the workflow file on that branch is still an old one. I would suggest rebasing docs on current main. I tried this in my fork with the expected result - regression tests are not run on my rebased version of docs anymore.
There was just one trivial conflict in .gitignore during the rebase.

[hsutter]

Fixed, thanks!