CI: Only run tests on exercises, when exercise relevant files are changed

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#832 opened on Mar 4, 2024 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Assessment

Difficulty: 3/5
Estimated time: 1-2 days
Newbie friendliness: 45/100

Issue type: Feature
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: bash, cpp, github-actions
Domain: ci-cd, testing

Research direction

Start by reviewing the referenced bash-track files, .github/workflows/pr.yml and .github/scripts/pr, to understand the proposed pattern for detecting relevant exercise changes. Compare that approach with this repository's CI configuration; done means pull requests run tests only for exercises whose relevant files changed.

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Description

I would like to reduce the friction in PRs that run all the exercise tests, although they do not interact with those files.

The bash track shows one way of doing so:

https://github.com/exercism/bash/blob/main/.github/workflows/pr.yml
https://github.com/exercism/bash/blob/main/.github/scripts/pr

Dominant language: C++
Stars: 291
Forks: 244
Avg merge: 17m
Merged PRs (30d): 1

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