Use native cancellation mechanism (#8311)

Github actions have a native mechanism to cancel previous runs of the same workflow now, much like the cancel workflow we have.

diff --git a/.github/workflows/cancel.yml b/.github/workflows/cancel.yml
deleted file mode 100644 (file)
index 9691fe2..0000000
--- a/.github/workflows/cancel.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-
-name: Cancel
-on:
-  workflow_run:
-    workflows: ["CI"]
-    types:
-      - requested
-
-jobs:
-  cancel:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - uses: styfle/cancel-workflow-action@0.9.1
-        with:
-          workflow_id: ${{ github.event.workflow.id }}

diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 543641042887ef26b91ae8a764068ed269f68749..f4a8b72424bd81d6df999ce10e42238b5193b010 100644 (file)
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -54,6 +54,11 @@ jobs:
     name: ${{ matrix.name }}
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
 
+    # cancel already running jobs for the same branch/pr/tag
+    concurrency:
+      group: build-${{ github.ref }}-${{ matrix.name }}
+      cancel-in-progress: true
+
     steps:
 
     - uses: actions/checkout@v2