Re: Build the docs if there are changes in docs and don't run other tasks if the changes are only in docs

Hi,

Thanks for the reply!

On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 11:05, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
>
> > On 7 Sep 2023, at 18:06, Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > if the changes are only in the docs, don't run
> > all tasks except building the docs task; this could help to save more
> > CI times.
>
> A related idea for docs in order to save CI time: if the changes are only in
> internal docs, ie README files, then don't run any tasks at all.  Looking at
> src/backend/parser/README the last two commits only touched that file, and
> while such patches might not be all that common, spending precious CI resources
> on them seems silly if we can avoid it.
>
> It doesn't have to be included in this, just wanted to bring it up as it's
> related.

I liked the idea, I am planning to edit the 0002 patch. CI won't run
any tasks if the changes are only in the README files.

> Almost, but not entirely.  There are a set of scripts which generate content
> for the docs based on files in src/, like src/backend/catalog/sql_features.txt
> and src/include/parser/kwlist.h.  If those source files change, or their
> scripts, it would be helpful to build docs.

Thanks! Are these the only files that are not in the doc subfolders
but effect docs?

Regards,
Nazir Bilal Yavuz
Microsoft