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Re:A curated list of actions to use on GitHub by m12k on Monday September 06, 2021 @03:11AM (#28431244)
GitHub Actions can do some neat things. I got tired of waiting for Dependabot (tool that makes automatic PRs to update your middleware, acquired by GitHub) to add an option to group PRs together (it opens a separate PR for each dependency that can be updated, so merging and re-running CI can take a long time) so I scratched my own itch and made a workflow that merges their PRs together: https://github.com/hrvey/combine-prs-workflow Been running it for a year now, and still pretty happy with it.
Re:A curated list of actions to use on GitHub by epage on Monday September 06, 2021 @07:39AM (#28432717)
Thanks! So many CPU minutes / parallel runner capacity is wasted on them not being combined, especially with the cascading rebasing that happens with each merge.

I wish they'd solve this and make it easy to have actions disabled in forks.

Re:A curated list of actions to use on GitHub by lloydatkinson on Monday September 06, 2021 @04:26AM (#28431617)
That is pretty awesome. I might try this next time I get swamped by 20 PR's for npm dependencies that are allegedly insecure.