From 97512da58e2afe6ee068e37eb258867ba63e1c61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "github-actions[bot]" <github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2026 22:11:58 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] CI: run once per change, and skip documentation-only changes

---
 .github/workflows/commit-formatting.yml |  5 ++++-
 .github/workflows/ruff.yml              | 12 +++++++++++-
 .github/workflows/tests.yml             | 12 +++++++++++-
 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/commit-formatting.yml b/.github/workflows/commit-formatting.yml
index 76a7786ca..ed1d78253 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/commit-formatting.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/commit-formatting.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 name: Check commit message formatting
 
-on: [push, pull_request]
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [PyDevices]
+  pull_request:
 
 concurrency:
   group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ruff.yml b/.github/workflows/ruff.yml
index 98b34de69..998843996 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ruff.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ruff.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,16 @@
 # https://docs.github.com/en/actions/automating-builds-and-tests/building-and-testing-python
 name: Python code lint and formatting with ruff
-on: [push, pull_request]
+# Documentation-only changes can't change this result, so they don't run it.
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [PyDevices]
+    paths-ignore:
+      - '**.md'
+      - 'LICENSE'
+  pull_request:
+    paths-ignore:
+      - '**.md'
+      - 'LICENSE'
 jobs:
   ruff:
     # Synced PyDevices packages are linted in their canonical source repos.
diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests.yml b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
index 5e503509e..a4396acdc 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,16 @@
 name: Package tests
 
-on: [push, pull_request]
+# Documentation-only changes can't change this result, so they don't run it.
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [PyDevices]
+    paths-ignore:
+      - '**.md'
+      - 'LICENSE'
+  pull_request:
+    paths-ignore:
+      - '**.md'
+      - 'LICENSE'
 
 jobs:
   build: