Emma Thorpe 8c3b101a14 ci: always run the workflow on PRs, guard the heavy steps ...

This job is a required status check on main. The workflow was path-filtered
to **.nix/flake.lock/ci.yaml, so a PR touching none of those (e.g. a
.renovaterc.json-only change) skipped the workflow entirely, leaving the
required check pending forever and making the PR unmergeable.

Run the workflow on every PR so the check is always reported, but keep a
'detect' step that diffs the PR against its base and runs nix flake check
and the per-host evals only when a .nix file, flake.lock, or this workflow
changed. When nothing Nix-relevant changed the heavy steps skip and the job
still passes, so the required check stays green-reportable without burning a
full evaluation on unrelated changes. Checkout uses fetch-depth: 0 so the
diff has the base history.

2026-06-16 11:51:18 +01:00

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workflows

ci: always run the workflow on PRs, guard the heavy steps

2026-06-16 11:51:18 +01:00