Comment by Lukas Mueller on "GitHub Actions I Set Up on Every Project"

CommentGitHub Actions I Set Up on Every Project

Lukas Mueller

Setting concurrency groups with cancel-in-progress on pull requests saves a lot of runner time. It prevents older commits from queuing up duplicate test runs when developers push rapid fixup commits.

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Madhav Bhasin

Production patterns for backend engineers who are tired of hello-world tutorials.

Oct 7

Exactly — the queue buildup from rapid fixup commits is the most visible pain point that concurrency groups solve. The cancel-in-progress: false distinction for deploys is worth keeping in mind too, where you want queuing rather than cancellation.

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