ci: only check new links on pull requests to avoid rate limiting#4522
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Large files like CHANGELOG.md contain hundreds of links. Checking all of them on every PR triggers HTTP 502 rate limits. On PRs, now only URLs from added lines in the diff are checked. Pushes to main still check all links in changed files for full validation. Mirrors open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5162. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.6
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Description
The
check-linksCI job checks all links in changed markdown files. For files likeCHANGELOG.mdthat contain hundreds of URLs, this triggers HTTP 502 rate limits from GitHub, causing spurious CI failures across many PRs.Changes
fetch-depth: 0to the checkout step sogit diffhas access to the base branch.How it works
The extracted URLs are written to a temporary markdown file and passed to
markdown-link-check.Mirrors open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python#5162 which reduced the check-links job from 17 minutes to 20 seconds.