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Re:I Hate GitHub Actions with Passion by never_inline on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @08:09AM (#46615622)
Build a CLI in python or whatever which does the same thing as CI, every CI stage should just call its subcommands.
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Re:I Hate GitHub Actions with Passion by Storment33 on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @08:27AM (#46615818)
Just use a task runner(Make, Just, Taskfile) this is what they were designed for.
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Re:I Hate GitHub Actions with Passion by jonhohle on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @09:04AM (#46616199)
I typically use make for this and feel like I’m constantly clawing back scripts written in workflows that are hard to debug if they’re even runnable locally.

This isn’t only a problem with GitHub Actions though. I’ve run into it with every CI runner I’ve come across.

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Re:I Hate GitHub Actions with Passion by never_inline on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @10:25AM (#46617092)
In many enterprise environments, deployment logic would be quite large for bash.
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Re:I Hate GitHub Actions with Passion by Storment33 on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @10:28AM (#46617130)
Personally, I have never found the Python as a task runners to be less code, more readable or maintainable.
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