changed-files VS runner

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changed-files runner
6 58
1,517 4,489
6.0% 2.4%
9.8 9.1
about 22 hours ago 6 days ago
TypeScript C#
MIT License MIT License
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changed-files

Posts with mentions or reviews of changed-files. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-08.
  • Why it is Important to Update Linters and How to Do it Right
    4 projects | dev.to | 8 Feb 2024
    We need to add two additional steps. The first one is to retrieve all new files, and the second one is to run the enhanced config only on the new files. In this example the third-party GitHub Action called changed-files is used to obtain the new files. In the GitHub Marketplace for Actions, there is a considerable number of similar actions with similar functionality. You can choose the one that suits you best, as the functionality is more or less the same for all of them.
  • Attempting a larger bug fix II - Execution
    3 projects | dev.to | 10 Dec 2023
    I determined this after dozens of attempts working with the other GitHub Action, tj-actions/changed-files which feeds a list of modified files to clang-format-lint.
  • Yarn workspaces/monorepo and CI/CD
    2 projects | /r/node | 24 Jan 2023
    GitHub actions has actions that do similar, I’ve used this one before with great success: https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files
  • Turborepo + GitHub Actions
    2 projects | /r/node | 17 Dec 2022
    You could also clean up your changed files job by using this (https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files) or something similar. That would at least make it easier to understand what it's supposed to be doing. You can use it to get the directories containing any changed package.json files. Then use that output as as a matrix input.
  • GitHub Actions Pitfalls
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Sep 2022
  • GitHub Action to run mypy on changed files only
    1 project | dev.to | 15 Jun 2022
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runner

Posts with mentions or reviews of runner. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-23.
  • Why the fuck are we templating YAML? (2019)
    27 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jan 2024
    In the case of GitHub Actions, it's made more painful by the lack of support for YAML anchors, which provide a bare minimum of composability.

    https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/1182

  • please dont state this as a "workaround". your version simply "pretends" it is a tty when infact it is not an actual tty
    1 project | /r/programmingcirclejerk | 5 Dec 2023
  • PySide vs. .NET WinForms for a Desktop GUI App in 2023?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Nov 2023
    Even if you don’t pick Avalonia, their notes for Mac distribution look useful:

    https://docs.avaloniaui.net/docs/distribution-publishing/mac...

    For example, the GitHub actions runner itself is a modern .NET core project with CI except for .app packaging.

    https://github.com/actions/runner/tree/main/.github/workflow...

  • GitHub Actions Are a Problem
    19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Nov 2023
    This probably answers your question:

    https://github.com/actions/runner/blob/a4c57f27477077e57545a...

  • DevOps CI/CD Quick Start Guide with GitHub Actions 🛠️🐙⚡️
    4 projects | dev.to | 27 Oct 2023
    $ mkdir actions-runner && cd actions-runner $ curl -o actions-runner-osx-arm64-2.311.0.tar.gz -L https://github.com/actions/runner/releases/download/v2.311.0/actions-runner-osx-arm64-2.311.0.tar.gz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 100 98.1M 100 98.1M 0 0 20.0M 0 0:00:04 0:00:04 --:--:-- 23.5M $ echo "fa2f107dbce709807bae014fb3121f5dbe106211b6bbe3484c41e3b30828d6b2 actions-runner-osx-arm64-2.311.0.tar.gz" | shasum -a 256 -c actions-runner-osx-arm64-2.311.0.tar.gz: OK $ tar xzf ./actions-runner-osx-arm64-2.311.0.tar.gz ❯ ./config.sh --url https://github.com/dpills/devops-quick-start-guide --token AGDCRGCMZWN34QIVISIO5XXXXXX -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ____ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ | | / ___(_) |_| | | |_ _| |__ / \ ___| |_(_) ___ _ __ ___ | | | | _| | __| |_| | | | | '_ \ / _ \ / __| __| |/ _ \| '_ \/ __| | | | |_| | | |_| _ | |_| | |_) | / ___ \ (__| |_| | (_) | | | \__ \ | | \____|_|\__|_| |_|\__,_|_.__/ /_/ \_\___|\__|_|\___/|_| |_|___/ | | | | Self-hosted runner registration | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Authentication √ Connected to GitHub # Runner Registration Enter the name of the runner group to add this runner to: [press Enter for Default] Enter the name of runner: [press Enter for dpills-mac] This runner will have the following labels: 'self-hosted', 'macOS', 'ARM64' Enter any additional labels (ex. label-1,label-2): [press Enter to skip] √ Runner successfully added √ Runner connection is good # Runner settings Enter name of work folder: [press Enter for _work] √ Settings Saved. ❯ ./run.sh √ Connected to GitHub Current runner version: '2.311.0' 2023-10-27 13:32:16Z: Listening for Jobs
  • Automate Flutter app delivery to AppCenter with GitHub Actions
    7 projects | dev.to | 6 Oct 2023
    A runner is where your action's jobs will be run. It can be a hosted virtual environment, or you can self-host a runner in your machine.
  • GitHub Actions Frequently Failing
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Sep 2023
  • Runners fail to set up job with tar -xzf error
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Sep 2023
  • How to deal with MSVC in DevOps
    9 projects | /r/cpp | 6 Jul 2023
    If i understand this writing correctly (https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/904), running Windows containers in a windows-latest GH Actions host is not possible. While using a self-hosted runner on a Windows server might be an option, this is not what I want since it is a package repo for a well-known open source project, think of the package repo part as a mini-Conan. I wouldn't know who would want to host that. In the best case we would stay with just GH Actions to keep everything confined in one space :)
  • Why is GitHub Actions installing Go 1.2 when I specify Go 1.20?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 May 2023
    Shameless plug for cuelang, which, among many other things, avoid this problem:

    https://cuelang.org

    It's not a new issue, the Python community had exactly the same surprise with 3.10: https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/1989

What are some alternatives?

When comparing changed-files and runner you can also consider the following projects:

actionlint - :octocat: Static checker for GitHub Actions workflow files

act - Run your GitHub Actions locally 🚀

Image-Optimizer-Action - A Github Action to optimize / compress images in your repository

azure-pipelines-agent - Azure Pipelines Agent 🚀

paths-filter - Conditionally run actions based on files modified by PR, feature branch or pushed commits

virtual-environments - GitHub Actions runner images [Moved to: https://github.com/actions/runner-images]

runner-images - GitHub Actions runner images

github-act-runner - act as self-hosted runner

template.github.semver - Template for Projects that use Github Actions and Hooks to enforce Semantic Versioning

mockoon - Mockoon is the easiest and quickest way to run mock APIs locally. No remote deployment, no account required, open source.

ansible-lint-action - ❗️Replaced by https://github.com/marketplace/actions/run-ansible-lint

docker-github-runner-linux - Repository for building a self hosted GitHub runner as a ubuntu linux container