It is a known problem that using paths-ignore to skip a workflow step will block a PR from ever merging if that workflow step is required. The step will just be pending forever.
The official guidance from GH is to create a separate workflow that targets the inverse of paths-ignore and just does nothing to complete the required steps. That sounds like a terrible workaround to me; I think it's better if we just remove the ignore rule and eat the unnecessary build cost.
Completely independent of the problem described above, I think we should use paths-ignore on the master branch push rule, that way we can skip unnecessary master builds for .md changes.
It is a known problem that using
paths-ignoreto skip a workflow step will block a PR from ever merging if that workflow step is required. The step will just be pending forever.The official guidance from GH is to create a separate workflow that targets the inverse of
paths-ignoreand just does nothing to complete the required steps. That sounds like a terrible workaround to me; I think it's better if we just remove the ignore rule and eat the unnecessary build cost.Completely independent of the problem described above, I think we should use
paths-ignoreon the master branch push rule, that way we can skip unnecessary master builds for .md changes.