Favorite Github Actions for FRC (and general life wellness)

UnofficialForth · July 9, 2020, 2:07pm

Howdy Lovely World of Cheif Delphi! Version control is a lovely programming tool, isn’t it? The question I have for you today: What are your favorite GitHub actions and why?

Not sure what a GitHub action is? Learn about them here!

Prateek_M · July 9, 2020, 2:20pm

I actually wrote a tutorial recently for the official WPILib documentation to help teams set up GitHub Actions to build and run unit tests on their robot code.

Hopefully, some teams find this information useful!

calcmogul · July 9, 2020, 3:32pm

We set up the GitHub Action in the WPILib unit test tutorial originally, then added a job for running the code formatter so it prevents us from committing unformatted code:

github.com

frc3512/Robot-2020/blob/master/.github/workflows/main.yml#L10-L55


format:
  # The type of runner that the job will run on
  runs-on: ubuntu-latest

  # Steps represent a sequence of tasks that will be executed as part of the job
  steps:
  - name: Install add-apt-repository
    run: |
      sudo apt-get update -q
      sudo apt-get install gnupg lsb-release software-properties-common -y

  # Ubuntu 18.04 comes with 2.17 by default, and checkout@v2 requires 2.18+ to
  # check out a Git repo instead of download a .zip. wpiformat relies on Git
  # metadata to function.
  - name: Upgrade Git to 2.18+
    run: |
      sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
      sudo apt-get update -q
      sudo apt-get install git -y

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Setting up GitHub Actions was basically copy-paste, so we added it to every repo we have that targets the roboRIO.

virtuald · July 10, 2020, 3:11am

RobotPy used to use Travis-CI, but now most of our repos have been moved to use github actions. Not only are they easier to manage than Travis-CI, but they have top-notch support for OSX and Windows so we can painlessly build RobotPy wheels for OSX/Windows so that teams don’t have to!

system · July 10, 2021, 3:11am

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