Re: [PATCH 0/2] replacing ci/config/allow-ref with a repo variable

[Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>]

On 05/09/2023 08:24, Jeff King wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 04, 2023 at 10:56:15AM +0100, Phillip Wood wrote:
> 
>>> Yes, I think it would be possible to do something like:
>>>
>>>     if: |
>>>       (vars.CI_BRANCHES == '' || contains(vars.CI_BRANCHES, github.ref_name)) &&
>>>       !contains(vars.CI_BRANCHES_REJECT, github.ref_name)
>>>
>>> It doesn't allow globbing, though. Do you need that?
>>
>> Oh I'd missed that, yes I do. All the globs are prefix matches but I'm not
>> sure that helps.
> 
> It does make it easier. There's no globbing function available to us,
> but if we know something is a prefix, there's a startsWith() we can use.
> It does seem we're getting a combinatorial expansion of things to check,
> though:
> 
>    - full names to accept
>    - full names to reject
>    - prefixes to accept
>    - prefixes to reject
> 
> I wrote "prefixes" but I'm actually not sure how feasible that is. That
> implies iterating over the list of prefixes, which I'm not sure we can
> do.

I scanned the github documentation the other day and wondered if it 
would be possible to use with fromJson with a json array to do a prefx 
match on each element. It all sounds like it is getting a bit 
complicated though.

Best Wishes

Phillip

> -Peff