Add five more cases of superfluous actions and recommend their replacements#1937
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Thanks @agriyakhetarpal! These persona/confidence levels seem reasonable to me on first blush.
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Summary
In continuation of my previous contribution via #1873, I discovered that some actions across the projects I am involved in are superfluous and can be replaced with simpler commands. This PR adds them to the list. All of these have more than a hundred uses at this time, as noted in the table below.
actions-ecosystem/action-add-labelsgh issueorgh prcommandsactions-ecosystem/action-remove-labelsgh issueorgh prcommandssergeysova/jq-actionjq! It's installed by default on GHA Linux runners. However,jqneeds to be installed on macOS runners (via Homebrew or other package managers), from the last time I remember trying it.stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-actiongit status --porcelainplus an early exit), committer identity config, and push setup, etc., that require enough boilerplate to justify their existence.EndBug/add-and-commitstefanzweifel. It also exposes outputs likecommit_long_shaandpushed, which downstream steps may consume — those needgit rev-parse HEAD, and so on to replicate. Again, I believe this is all doable withgit, but feel that there are enough moving parts forPedantic/Low.Thank you :D