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Zarel on March 31, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Gitlab features that are moving to open source

It's much better than Travis in every way except one: GitHub Actions pull request checks are against the PR branch, while Travis pull request checks are against a merged tree.

The most common case where this matters is if someone pushes a failing commit to master, and then all PRs based on that commit will also fail, and then a fix is pushed to master. With Travis, you just need to re-run checks, but with GitHub actions, all those PRs need to be rebased on the new master.

ilammy on March 31, 2020 [–]

> GitHub Actions pull request checks are against the PR branch, while Travis pull request checks are against a merged tree

Actually, actions/checkout will check out the merged tree by default.

Zarel on March 31, 2020 | [–]

Indeed, the documentation reflects this. So why isn't it happening on my repo? Weird...

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