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Work around 403s when synchronizing the mailing list mirror #18

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sync-mailing-list-mirror: work around authorization problems
dscho Sep 28, 2025
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sync-mailing-list-mirror: force push on workflow_dispatch
dscho Sep 28, 2025
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21 changes: 20 additions & 1 deletion .github/workflows/sync-mailing-list-mirror.yml
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Expand Up @@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ jobs:
set -x
echo "org=${TARGET_GITHUB_REPOSITORY%%/*}" >>$GITHUB_OUTPUT &&
echo "repo=${TARGET_GITHUB_REPOSITORY#*/}" >>$GITHUB_OUTPUT &&
test workflow_dispatch != '${{ github.event_name }}' || {
echo "result=true" >>$GITHUB_OUTPUT
exit 0
}
source="$(git ls-remote "$SOURCE_REPOSITORY" master)" &&
target="$(git ls-remote https://github.com/"$TARGET_GITHUB_REPOSITORY" lore-$LORE_EPOCH)" &&
echo "result=$(test "${source%% *}" = "${target%% *}" && echo false || echo true)" >>$GITHUB_OUTPUT
Expand All @@ -51,4 +55,19 @@ jobs:
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ steps.token.outputs.token }}
run: |
git push https://$GITHUB_ACTOR:[email protected]/$TARGET_GITHUB_REPOSITORY lore-$LORE_EPOCH
backoff=0
while (
git push https://$GITHUB_ACTOR:[email protected]/$TARGET_GITHUB_REPOSITORY lore-$LORE_EPOCH;
echo $? >exit.code
) 2>&1 | tee output.log; exit_code="$(cat exit.code)"; test 0 != "$exit_code" && grep 403 output.log
do
backoff=$(($backoff+1))
test 10 -gt $backoff || {
echo '::error::Failed too many times' >&2
exit $exit_code
}
printf '::warning::access token somehow not yet active; sleeping for %d seconds\nexit code: %s\n' \
$backoff $(cat exit.code)
sleep $backoff
done
exit $exit_code