Kiri KiCad Diff Action

Kiri Pull Request GitHub Action

This is a convenient and easy way to run Kiri against a Pull Request using GitHub Actions.

The base Kiri image is hosted in the GitHub Container Repository here https://github.com/USA-RedDragon/kiri-github-action/pkgs/container/kiri, which is based on the Kiri image at https://github.com/leoheck/kiri-docker

PR HTML Preview Setup

In order to provide PRs with a link to preview the changes, this action pushes to the gh-pages branch of the source repository and hosts the Kiri output in subdirectories.

For this to work properly, you'll need to make an empty gh-pages branch with the file .nojekyll (to avoid _KIRI_ folders returning a 404).

This can be done quickly like so:

git init tempfolder
cd tempfolder
touch .nojekyll
git add .nojekyll
git commit -m "Initial Commit"
git branch gh-pages
git remote add origin <your origin>
git push origin HEAD:refs/heads/gh-pages
cd ..
rm -rf tempfolder

Deleting PRs on close

Running this action in the context of pull_request.closed will delete any Kiri previews that were made for the PR.

Action inputs

All inputs are optional.

Name	Description
`all`	If set, include all commits even if schematics/layout don't have changes
`last`	Show last N commits
`newer`	Show commits up to this one
`older`	Show commits starting from this one
`skip-cache`	If set, skip usage of -cache.lib on plotgitsch
`skip-kicad6-schematics`	If set, skip ploting Kicad 6 schematics (.kicad.sch)
`force-layout-view`	If set, force starting with the Layout view selected
`pcb-page-frame`	If set, disable page frame for PCB
`archive`	If set, archive generated files
`remove`	If set, remove generated folder before running it
`output-dir`	If set, change output folder path/name
`project-file`	Path to the KiCad project file
`extra-args`	Extra arguments to pass to Kiri
`kiri-debug`	If set, enable debugging output

Examples

Note: Don't use the main branch, use a tag instead. Using the main branch will result in trying to pull a Docker image that doesn't exist.

Quick Start

# .github/workflows/pr-kicad-diff.yaml
name: KiCad Pull Request Diff

concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
  cancel-in-progress: true

on:
  pull_request:
    types:
    - opened
    - synchronize

jobs:
  kiri-diff:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      with:
        ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
    - name: Kiri
      uses: usa-reddragon/kiri-github-action@v1
      with:
        project-file: kicad/productname.kicad_pro

# .github/workflows/pr-kicad-diff-delete.yaml
name: KiCad Diff Delete

concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
  cancel-in-progress: false

on:
  pull_request:
    types:
    - closed

jobs:
  kiri-delete:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - name: Kiri
      uses: usa-reddragon/kiri-github-action@v1

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