Conventional Commits workflow (kadirnar/segment-anything-video)

The Conventional Commits workflow from kadirnar/segment-anything-video, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

What it does

This is the Conventional Commits workflow from the kadirnar/segment-anything-video repository, a real project running GitHub Actions. It is shown here with attribution under its Apache-2.0 license.

Below, Latchkey shows a faster, safer version produced by its optimization engine.

The workflow

name: Conventional Commits
on: [pull_request]

jobs:
  lint-commits:
    name: Lint Commits
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Checkout 🛎️
        uses: actions/checkout@v3.5.3
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

      - name: Install Commit Linting Tool 🔧
        run: npm install --save-dev @commitlint/{cli,config-conventional}

      - name: Set Linting Config to Conventional Commits spec 🔧
        run: |
          echo "module.exports = { extends: ['@commitlint/config-conventional'] };" > commitlint.config.js

      - name: Lint 🚨
        run: npx commitlint --from HEAD~1 --to HEAD --verbose

The same workflow, on Latchkey

Removes redundant runs and caps runaway jobs. Added and changed lines are highlighted.

name: Conventional Commits
on: [pull_request]
 
concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
  cancel-in-progress: true
 
jobs:
  lint-commits:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    name: Lint Commits
    runs-on: latchkey-small
 
    steps:
      - name: Checkout 🛎️
        uses: actions/checkout@v3.5.3
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
 
      - name: Install Commit Linting Tool 🔧
        run: npm install --save-dev @commitlint/{cli,config-conventional}
 
      - name: Set Linting Config to Conventional Commits spec 🔧
        run: |
          echo "module.exports = { extends: ['@commitlint/config-conventional'] };" > commitlint.config.js
 
      - name: Lint 🚨
        run: npx commitlint --from HEAD~1 --to HEAD --verbose
 

What changed

• Run on Latchkey managed runners with one line (runs-on), which apply the fixes below automatically and self-heal transient failures. This example uses latchkey-small; pick the runner size that fits the job.
• Cancel superseded runs when a branch or PR gets a newer push.
• Add a job timeout so a hung step cannot burn hours of runner time.

What Latchkey heals here

This workflow has steps that commonly fail on transient issues (network, registries, flaky browsers). On Latchkey managed runners they are detected, retried, and self-healed instead of failing your build:

• Dependency installs

This workflow runs 1 job per trigger. On Latchkey the same minutes cost up to 58% less than GitHub-hosted, with zero queue time.

Actions used in this workflow