The people over at Blacksmith.sh have generously offered usage of their
runners for our organization, so let's try to switch over some simple
workflows. The runners should be drop-in replacements.
It’s possible but unlikely that a push of generated notes back to the
remote can fail with a message like
> [remote rejected] ... cannot > lock ref 'refs/notes/commits': is at
> f3648f50bb but expected 47686bf473
See https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/actions/runs/10054314539
So this change makes the call to “git push” for notes not return 0 even
if it fails — because it’s not actually a fatal error when it happens,
and not something we need to stop and fix. Instead, it fixes itself.
Specifically: If one CI job for a PR merge/push to master generates
some notes but fails to push them to the origin, the notes don’t get
dropped on the floor and lost.
Instead, the notes-generator tool looks at the entire history; and if it
finds commits that don’t have notes — even if those commits are not part
of the PR push/merge it’s operating on — it generates notes for those.
In other words, if notes for one PR push/job fail for some reason to get
pushed back to the remote, they get regenerated by the next PR push/job.
This change makes the notes-push.yml·workflow fetch the entire history
on each push, rather than just the one HEAD commit it otherwise sees.
Because we push multiple commits from PR merges, git-gloss need access
on each push to an arbitrary number of commits (however many commits
were pushed in a PR that got merged). There’s no easy way from GH
Actions to know how may commits got pushed at the same time. So we
instead fetch the whole history.
This change, for each commit pushed/merged to master:
- causes new git Notes with GitHub PR/issue/reviewer/author links to be
auto-generated for that commit
- pushes the updated refs/notes/commits tree+references back to the repo
