Use a fork of the filter repo to swap GitHub API calls with git commands

[GeorgianaElena]

Apparently, the action repo https://github.com/dorny/paths-filter can be configured to use git commands instead of calling the GitHub API for various things, by passing it an empty token. This would be very beneficial for us, as we would be reducing our API calls and hopefully stop running into rate limit errors (#1686)

However, according to dorny/paths-filter#133 it misses a little something in order for it to work.

How would people feel about using that fork for our repository in order to be able to use this feature?

P.S. Does anyone know if it's possible to pin to a commit for an action repo in the workflow and not use @main?

[sgibson91]

Does anyone know if it's possible to pin to a commit for an action repo in the workflow and not use @main?

Yes I believe you can use @[commit SHA]

[yuvipanda]

I think these can really be only tested out by merging and watching, so am happy for you to test this out!

[GeorgianaElena]

Thanks @yuvipanda! 🚀