Re: [PATCH] automation: avoid duplicated builds of staging branch

[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 05:14:01PM -0700, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Jul 2023, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 04:42:11PM -0700, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > > On Mon, 17 Jul 2023, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 02:14:14PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> > > > > On 17/07/2023 2:09 pm, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> > > > > > "staging" branch is mirrored (automatically or manually) to several
> > > > > > repositories. Avoid building it several times to not waste runner
> > > > > > resources.
> > > 
> > > Hi Marek,
> > > 
> > > Let me try to understand the use-case a bit better. You would like the
> > > following "staging" branch to run a full pipeline:
> > > https://gitlab.com/xen-project/xen
> > > 
> > > But if someone under xen-project/people is mirroring
> > > https://gitlab.com/xen-project/xen, this patch is attempting to skip the
> > > additional pipeline. For instance, if I am mirroring staging in my
> > > personal repo:
> > > 
> > > https://gitlab.com/xen-project/people/sstabellini/xen
> > > 
> > > We are skipping the additional pipeline there.
> > 
> > Yes.
> > 
> > > Is that correct? If so, it would be easier to ask everyone to make sure
> > > they have "Trigger pipelines for mirror updates" unselected:
> > > 
> > > https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/repository/mirror/pull.html#trigger-pipelines-for-mirror-updates
> > 
> > If that's set in gitlab as pull mirror (instead of push from somewhere
> > else), then that indeed may be enough. But is it really in all those
> > cases?
> 
> Yes, it is an option in the pull mirror, by default should be unselected
> I believe.

Well, if that's the case, either it got manually enabled on those 4 (?)
forks, or those are using something else for mirroring the staging
branch (in which case, the setting would not help). I can't see this
part of the settings in other's repositories, so I don't know.

-- 
Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab

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