Tyler A. Young 🧑🏻‍💻⚗️ on Nostr: PSA: GitHub Actions always runs CI against a temporary merge of your branch + your ...
PSA: GitHub Actions always runs CI against a temporary merge of your branch + your main branch. The surprising side effect of this is that tests that don't even exist on your branch can fail in CI (because you’re behind `main`).
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