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GitHub Coverage Rulesets Are Now Scriptable

GitHub Coverage Rulesets Are Now Scriptable

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Newsletter Title

GitHub Coverage Rulesets Are Now Scriptable

Intro

GitHub added REST API support for code coverage ruleset thresholds, making coverage gates easier to manage across repositories without clicking through settings screens.

Takeaways

  • GitHub’s changelog says the code coverage ruleset condition is now generally available through the REST API.
  • Coverage gates are easy to mismanage when every repository gets configured by hand.
  • Rulesets control how people and automation can interact with branches and tags. For branch rulesets, GitHub’s REST API supports creating and updating a ruleset with a rules array.
  • The next useful step would be cleaner examples for managing the same rule across many repositories, including drift detection and dry-run output.

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Topics: github, ci, security, devtools