11th July 2022
TIL
Conditionally running a second job in a GitHub Actions workflow
— My [simonwillisonblog-backup workflow](https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog-backup/blob/main/.github/workflows/backup.yml) periodically creates a JSON backup of my blog's PostgreSQL database, using [db-to-sqlite](https://datasette.io/tools/db-to-sqlite) and [sqlite-diffable](https://datasette.io/tools/sqlite-diffable). It then commits any changes back to the repo using this pattern:
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