Use recursive rules

[Shatur]

Thank you a lot for this action!
Could you add the ability to use rules recursively?
For example:

- name: Detect changes
  uses: dorny/[email protected]
  id: changes
  with:
    filters: |
      all:
        - '.github/workflows/main.yml'
        - 'CMakeLists.txt'
        - 'CMake/**'
      utils:
        - ${{ steps.changes.filters.all }}
        - 'Utils/**'

Such rule would allow to avoid always check for all rule in every step. This is just a simple example. But such feature can help to avoid duplicated paths in dependent filters (very usefull for project with complex dependencies).

[dorny]

I'm glad you find it useful :)

Your proposal should be possible to implement without heavy effort using YAML anchors.
Syntax would be slightly different but it will do the job. I will look into it during next days.

Meanwhile you could consider moving this logic into workflows if statements:

if: steps.changes.outputs.all == 'true' || steps.changes.outputs.utils == 'true'

[Shatur]

Thanks!

Meanwhile you could consider moving this logic into workflows if statements:

Yes, this is how I using it right now. Also I have a lot of related components. The suggested feature will reduce a lot of copy-paste :)

[Shatur]

Thank you a lot!

[dorny]

Given your example, following setup should work now:

all: &all
  - '.github/workflows/main.yml'
  - 'CMakeLists.txt'
  - 'CMake/**'
utils:
  - *all
  - 'Utils/**'