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ci: stop the release job re-running the test suite before it pushes - #182
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`pnpm install` reinstalls this repo's local pre-push gate, so every push the release job makes re-ran the whole suite inside CI — 20,387 tests, 17 minutes, on a commit CI had already tested. That is what failed the last release run: the push held a stale lease for the whole window and was rejected. On the publish path the same push carries the version tags and happens after npm has already accepted the packages. One flaky test there, or the 30-minute job timeout, would leave a published release untagged and skip every job that follows it — docs, native artifacts, the extension, the tap, the CDN. Two independent layers: SKIP_HOOKS, which the hook reads and which reaches the pushes a JS action spawns, and deleting the hooks after install, which does not depend on the environment surviving that hop. The delete resolves the hooks directory through git rather than assuming .git/hooks, and fails the job if a hook is still there afterwards.
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In @.github/workflows/release.yml:
- Around line 21-22: Add a top-level permissions: {} default to the workflow,
then inspect each job and explicitly grant only the repository or organization
permissions it requires, preserving existing job behavior while ensuring
unspecified permissions remain denied.
- Around line 128-129: Update the rm invocation in the hooks cleanup step to
terminate option parsing before the resolved pre-push and pre-commit hook paths,
while preserving both existing paths and forced removal behavior.
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Two review findings on this workflow. The workflow had no top-level `permissions`, so any job without its own block inherited whatever the repository or organisation hands out, which can be write-capable. It now denies everything by default and each job asks for what it needs: `contents: read` for the three that only check out, nothing at all for the CDN trigger, which posts to a webhook and never calls the API. The reusable native build declares `contents: read` for itself, so its caller now grants exactly that. The hook removal passed a resolved path straight to `rm`. A `core.hooksPath` beginning with a dash would have been read as options; `--` ends parsing.
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Related Issue
No issue — this came out of the release run for
98c0121cd, which failed on its push tochangeset-release/main.Problem
pnpm installrunsprepare: simple-git-hooks, which reinstalls this repo's local pre-push gate inside the release job. Everygit pushthe changesets action makes therefore re-ran the whole suite in CI: 20,387 tests, 1030 seconds, on a commit CI had already tested —wait-for-checksblocks the job on exactly that.That is what failed the last run. The push held its lease for the full 17 minutes and was rejected:
That instance was harmless — the branch already had the right content from the run before it. The publish path is not. There, the same push carries the version tags and runs after npm has already accepted the packages. One flaky test under runner load, or the 30-minute job timeout, would leave a published release untagged and skip every job that depends on it: docs, native artifacts, the VS Code extension, the Homebrew tap, the CDN. The failed run already demonstrated that skip cascade.
The job also sat at 21 of its 30 allotted minutes, almost all of it re-running tests.
What changed
Two independent layers, because either alone has a gap:
SKIP_HOOKS: "1"at the workflow level.scripts/pre-push.shreads it and stands down. Set on the workflow rather than a step so it reaches the pushes a JS action spawns, and so it survives a hook being reinstalled.pnpm install, because install is what puts the hooks back. It resolves the directory withgit rev-parse --git-path hooks— git's own resolution ofcore.hooksPath— rather than assuming.git/hooks, and fails the job if a hook is still present afterwards.Also documented the
concurrencybehaviour that shaped this: not cancelling in-progress runs is deliberate (never interrupt a publish), but GitHub holds only one pending run per group, so a third push while a release is running silently drops the one queued behind it. A short release job is what keeps that window small — which matters more now that the release PR can merge on a cadence.Verified the guard against a default hooks dir, a custom
core.hooksPath, and a mutation where removal is defeated — the last one fails the step, as intended.shellcheckclean.Checklist
/approve).core.hooksPath, and a mutation that defeats the removal.)gen-changesetsskill, or this PR needs no changeset.gen-docsskill, or this PR needs no doc update.Summary by CodeRabbit