Dependency Review workflow (nedbat/coveragepy)

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Source: nedbat/coveragepy.github/workflows/dependency-review.ymlLicense Apache-2.0View source

What it does

This is the Dependency Review workflow from the nedbat/coveragepy 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

workflow (.yml)

# Dependency Review Action
#
# This Action will scan dependency manifest files that change as part of a Pull Reqest, surfacing known-vulnerable versions of the packages declared or updated in the PR. Once installed, if the workflow run is marked as required, PRs introducing known-vulnerable packages will be blocked from merging.
#
# Source repository: https://github.com/actions/dependency-review-action
# Public documentation: https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/supply-chain-security/understanding-your-software-supply-chain/about-dependency-review#dependency-review-enforcement

name: "Dependency Review"

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
      - nedbat/*
  pull_request:
  workflow_dispatch:

permissions:
  contents: read

concurrency:
  group: "${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}"
  cancel-in-progress: true

jobs:
  dependency-review:
    name: "Review dependencies"
    if: github.repository_owner == 'coveragepy'
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: "Check out the repo"
        uses: actions/checkout@9c091bb21b7c1c1d1991bb908d89e4e9dddfe3e0 # v7.0.0
        with:
          persist-credentials: false

      - name: "Dependency Review"
        uses: actions/dependency-review-action@a1d282b36b6f3519aa1f3fc636f609c47dddb294 # v5.0.0
        with:
          base-ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha || 'main' }}
          head-ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.ref }}

The same workflow, on Latchkey

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

# Dependency Review Action
#
# This Action will scan dependency manifest files that change as part of a Pull Reqest, surfacing known-vulnerable versions of the packages declared or updated in the PR. Once installed, if the workflow run is marked as required, PRs introducing known-vulnerable packages will be blocked from merging.
#
# Source repository: https://github.com/actions/dependency-review-action
# Public documentation: https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/supply-chain-security/understanding-your-software-supply-chain/about-dependency-review#dependency-review-enforcement
 
name: "Dependency Review"
 
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
      - nedbat/*
  pull_request:
  workflow_dispatch:
 
permissions:
  contents: read
 
concurrency:
  group: "${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}"
  cancel-in-progress: true
 
jobs:
  dependency-review:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    name: "Review dependencies"
    if: github.repository_owner == 'coveragepy'
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    steps:
      - name: "Check out the repo"
        uses: actions/checkout@9c091bb21b7c1c1d1991bb908d89e4e9dddfe3e0 # v7.0.0
        with:
          persist-credentials: false
 
      - name: "Dependency Review"
        uses: actions/dependency-review-action@a1d282b36b6f3519aa1f3fc636f609c47dddb294 # v5.0.0
        with:
          base-ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha || 'main' }}
          head-ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.ref }}

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.
Add a job timeout so a hung step cannot burn hours of runner time.

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

actions/checkout actions/dependency-review-action