CI: Deduplicate the GMT cache download step into a composite action - #4858
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Six workflows (benchmarks, ci_docs, ci_doctests, ci_tests, ci_tests_dev and
ci_tests_legacy) each carried their own copy of the step that downloads the
'gmt-cache' artifact into ~/.gmt. All six were functionally identical; the only
differences were comment drift.
Replace them with a local composite action at
.github/actions/download-gmt-cache, which removes 48 lines and adds 6.
Note that composite actions do not inherit the job's 'defaults.run.shell', so the
action sets 'shell: bash -l {0}' explicitly to match the workflows.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The 'Ensure hyphens are not used in names of directories and Python files' step in style_checks.yaml greps every tracked directory, so '.github/actions/download-gmt-cache' would have failed CI. Rename it to 'download_gmt_cache'. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@weiji14 Do you have any comments on this PR? |
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The code itself looks fine, I'm just not sure how I feel yet about more AI-assisted contributions, whether it should be encouraged or not (should talk about in #4759). |
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Personally, I encourage AI assistance in contributing, but the contributor should be able to understand and explain the changes. Anyway, it should be discussed in #4759. |
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Co-authored-by: Wei Ji <23487320+weiji14@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Dongdong Tian <seisman.info@gmail.com>
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What this does
Six workflows each carried their own copy of the step that downloads the
gmt-cacheartifact into
~/.gmt:benchmarks,ci_docs,ci_doctests,ci_tests,ci_tests_devandci_tests_legacy.They now share
.github/actions/download-gmt-cache:Possible follow-ups, deliberately not done here
Get current week number of year(4 workflows) andmake install(5 workflows) arealso duplicated, but they are 1-2 lines each, so wrapping them likely costs more in
indirection than it saves.
Idea by @seisman, and implemented by Claude Code