ci: enable bazel-diff#3838
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We set USE_BAZEL_DIFF=1 in the reusable task configuration to activate bazel-diff target filtering in our CI pipelines.
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This pull request configures the environment variable USE_BAZEL_DIFF to be enabled globally within the reusable configuration of the Bazel CI presubmit pipeline. The feedback highlights that running bazel-diff across all platforms and tasks is highly inefficient and may cause compatibility issues on certain runners like Windows. It is recommended to compute the changed targets once in a preliminary step instead.
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| skip_in_bazel_downstream_pipeline: "Bazel 7 required" | ||
| .reusable_config: &reusable_config | ||
| environment: | ||
| USE_BAZEL_DIFF: "1" |
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Where is this env var used? Is it baked into .bazelci config outside of the rules_python repo or something?
I was trying to look up what exactly it would end up doing. I know about https://github.com/Tinder/bazel-diff but we don't have it as a bazel_dep.
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Enable bazel-diff to improve CI performance by skipping targets that aren't affected by a PR