Having trouble setting up correctly

[mainrs]

Hey! I have troubles setting this action up correctly. I think I configured it correctly but the jobs that I specified using the if-clause still get all triggered.

Here is the workflow file: https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd/blob/master/.github/workflows/ci.yml
And here is the PR that triggers all steps, even though it should only trigger the pre_job one: Spotifyd/spotifyd#743

I've tried to set the action up so it only triggers codestyle, lint and check if files inside of src/ change or one of the following files: Cargo.toml, Cargo.lock, .github/workflows/ci.yml.

I'd really really appreciate your help, as we are having troubles with protected branches and GitHub's paths feature. All our PRs hang and wait for checks :(

[fkirc]

Your setup seems to be correct, you have configured the paths feature as expected.
However, this paths feature works very different than GitHub's native paths feature.
I explained the differences to GitHub's native paths feature in #59.

My feeling is that your repo has very few successful checks that are parents of the commits that you want to path-skip.
If such successful parent-checks cannot be found, then this Action won't path-skip anything.

[fkirc]

I have to admit that the logging-situation was bad, which made it hard to see why paths-skipping failed.
Therefore, I published #80 as an attempt to improve the logging-situation.
So if you upgrade to v3.3.0, then you should see exactly why something was skipped or not skipped.
Feel free to re-open this issue if the result is still not understandable with the logging of v3.3.0.

[mainrs]

That could actually be it! The part that through me off was that the PR that I opened to change the workflow file worked as indented in the first place, it only ran the pre_job and nothing else, as it's path wasn't specified inside the array. I then concluded that everything worked correctly without problems.