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This PR introduces the nektos/act project to run GitHub Actions workflows on a developer's local machine, providing a fast, cost-effective and resource-efficient way to test changes to actions and debug before pushing to GitHub. It emulates the GitHub Actions runner environment using Docker containers, allowing for an identical testing conditions.
Context
Testing
# clone the repo and switch to the `Test_GitHub_Actions_locally` branch, then run:
$ make runner-act workflow="stage-1-commit" job="cloc-repository"
Type of changes
[ ] Refactoring (non-breaking change)
[x] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
[ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would change existing functionality)
[ ] Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
[ ] This PR is a result of pair or mob programming
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Description
This PR introduces the
nektos/actproject to run GitHub Actions workflows on a developer's local machine, providing a fast, cost-effective and resource-efficient way to test changes to actions and debug before pushing to GitHub. It emulates the GitHub Actions runner environment using Docker containers, allowing for an identical testing conditions.Context
Testing
Type of changes
Checklist
Sensitive Information Declaration
To ensure the utmost confidentiality and protect your and others privacy, we kindly ask you to NOT including PII (Personal Identifiable Information) / PID (Personal Identifiable Data) or any other sensitive data in this PR (Pull Request) and the codebase changes. We will remove any PR that do contain any sensitive information. We really appreciate your cooperation in this matter.