ci: skip native Swift checks whose inputs did not change - #9062
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The macOS and iOS jobs take about 30 minutes each, and most PRs touch neither platform's inputs. Today the only filter is a `paths:` glob list on the trigger, which is both too coarse and too blunt: `Makefile` is on it, so any Makefile edit buys a 30-minute Swift build even when the change is Android-only, while a platform whose inputs genuinely did not change still rebuilds because some other path on the list moved. Add a planner that hashes the tracked files each platform actually builds from and compares against the PR base. Identical fingerprint means nothing that job consumes changed, so it is skipped. It hashes git's own tree metadata, so content, file mode, additions and deletions all move the digest. The evidence is strictly local: this PR's own base, via git, in the same checkout. No network, no state from other runs, nothing to trust. The trigger is now unfiltered for pull_request. The planner is more precise than path globs, and it is also more honest — every PR gets an explicit skipped or completed native check rather than a missing one. It runs on ubuntu-latest in seconds. Both native gates fail closed. A plain `if` on a needs-output does not run when the dependency fails, so a broken planner would report the checks as skipped, which reads green, and a Swift break would reach main with no native check ever having run — the failure this workflow exists to prevent (engineering#3850). A planner that did not succeed therefore means "build". !cancelled() rather than always(), so cancelling a run still cancels these jobs. The planner gates the only checks that catch a Swift break, so its own tests run in the plan job before it is trusted to skip anything. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe pull request adds a Swift CI planner that fingerprints platform inputs, tests planning decisions, and gates iOS and macOS compile jobs using the planner outputs. ChangesSwift CI planning
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant PullRequest as Pull request
participant Plan as plan job
participant SwiftCI as swift_ci.py
participant Git as Git repository
participant NativeChecks as iOS and macOS compile jobs
PullRequest->>Plan: Start workflow and fetch base commit
Plan->>SwiftCI: Run planner
SwiftCI->>Git: Compare base and HEAD tree metadata
Git-->>SwiftCI: Return tracked entries
SwiftCI-->>Plan: Emit platform-needed outputs
Plan-->>NativeChecks: Apply platform gates
NativeChecks->>NativeChecks: Run selected compile checks
Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The workflow documentation should be corrected, but no material merge-blocking behavior issue is evidenced. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
Full details: Docstring CoverageExplanation Docstring coverage is 13.33% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 15 functions across 2 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)
✨ Finishing Touches 💡 1📝 Generate docstrings 💡
🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)
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In @.github/workflows/swift-compile-check.yml:
- Around line 9-10: Update the nearby workflow comment to accurately describe
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| # actual input tree, which is both more precise than path globs (a Makefile | ||
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Correct the Makefile claim.
.github/scripts/swift_ci.py Line 26 includes Makefile in SHARED_FILES. A Makefile edit therefore runs both native checks. Update this comment to describe the actual fingerprint benefit.
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- # actual input tree, which is both more precise than path globs (a Makefile
- # edit no longer implies a Swift rebuild by itself) and more honest: every PR
+ # actual input tree, which detects relevant content and file-mode changes
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| # actual input tree, which is both more precise than path globs (a Makefile | |
| # edit no longer implies a Swift rebuild by itself) and more honest: every PR | |
| # actual input tree, which detects relevant content and file-mode changes | |
| # that path globs cannot distinguish, and ensures that every PR |
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In @.github/workflows/swift-compile-check.yml around lines 9 - 10, Update the
nearby workflow comment to accurately describe the fingerprint behavior:
Makefile edits are included in SHARED_FILES and therefore trigger both native
checks, so do not claim that Makefile changes no longer imply a Swift rebuild.
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The planner has overly broad invalidation and does not account for external toolchain changes.
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Pull request overview
Adds a Linux planner that fingerprints native inputs and conditionally runs macOS/iOS Swift checks.
Changes:
- Replaces coarse path filters with planner-based detection.
- Adds fail-closed native job gates.
- Adds fingerprinting and planner tests.
File summaries
| File | Summary | Review notes |
|---|---|---|
.github/workflows/swift-compile-check.yml |
Runs the planner and conditionally gates native checks. | — |
.github/scripts/swift_ci.py |
Selects platform inputs and compares Git fingerprints. | Moderate (3 votes): narrow unrelated prefixes. Moderate (1 vote): account for moving Xcode and gomobile inputs. |
.github/scripts/test_swift_ci.py |
Tests input selection, hashing, and planning. | Nit (1 vote): capture the fingerprint immediately before deletion. |
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.github/scripts/swift_ci.py:68
- This comparison only models repository tree inputs, but the native jobs also consume moving external toolchain inputs: the workflow selects
xcode-version: latest-stableand the Makefile installsgomobile@latest(Makefile:250, 825-826). If either upstream tool changes while a PR only edits unrelated files, both native jobs will be marked skipped even though the current build may be broken. Pin or fingerprint those tool versions, or retain an automatic periodic/native validation path before relying on this as the required gate.
if pr and fingerprint(pr['base']['sha'], platform) == fingerprint('HEAD', platform):
needed, reason = False, 'No platform inputs changed relative to base'
.github/scripts/test_swift_ci.py:67
- The deletion assertion compares the post-deletion fingerprint with
original, which was captured before the content and mode changes. It would still pass if deleting the file did not affect the digest; capture the fingerprint immediately beforeunlink()so this test verifies the deletion itself.
source.unlink()
commit()
self.assertNotEqual(original, swift_ci.fingerprint('HEAD', 'ios'),
'deletion must move the digest')
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First half of a split of #9043. This is the change-detection half; the artifact-reuse half follows stacked on top. #9043 bundled both, plus a gomobile pin and cache removal, which made the risky part hard to see next to the safe part.
Problem
macOS and iOS take ~30 minutes each, and most PRs touch neither platform's inputs. The only filter today is a
paths:glob on the trigger, which is both too coarse and too blunt —Makefileis on the list, so any Makefile edit buys a 30-minute Swift build even when the change is Android-only (see #9060), while a platform whose inputs genuinely didn't change still rebuilds because some other listed path moved.Approach
Hash the tracked files each platform actually builds from, compare against the PR base. Identical fingerprint means nothing that job consumes changed, so skip it.
It hashes git's own tree metadata, so content, file mode, additions and deletions all move the digest, and sorting makes it independent of tree order.
The evidence is strictly local — this PR's own base, via git, in the same checkout. No network, no state from other runs, nothing to trust. That property is the whole reason this is separable from the artifact-reuse work, where the trust boundary lives.
The
pull_requesttrigger is now unfiltered. The planner is more precise than path globs, and more honest: every PR gets an explicit skipped or completed native check rather than a missing one. It runs onubuntu-latestin seconds.Both gates fail closed
A plain
ifon a needs-output does not run when the dependency fails, so a broken planner would report both native checks as skipped — which reads green — and a Swift break would reachmainwith no native check ever having run. That's the failure this workflow was added to prevent, per its own header (engineering#3850).!cancelled()rather thanalways(), so cancelling still cancels these 30-minute jobs.The planner gates the only checks that catch a Swift break, so its own tests run in the plan job before it's trusted to skip anything.
Verification
actionlint .github/workflows/swift-compile-check.ymlpasses.gh api, artifact, marker,actions: readmachinery — none present, confirming the split is clean.Deliberately not here
Everything with a trust boundary or a retention window: cross-run framework reuse, success markers, the artifacts API and its trusted-run check,
push: mainwarming, theGOMOBILE_VERSIONpin. Those follow in the stacked PR, where they can be reviewed on their own terms — that's where the review findings on #9043 concentrated.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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