Outdated README warning for parallel re-runs about github-action HOT 7 CLOSED

@MikeMcC399 We used to have issues where users would click 'Rerun jobs' in GitHub Actions and the run would look like it's recording and running, but it essentially just exits 0 and looks like the tests passed, but they didn't run at all. That was because a new unique ci-build-id wasn't generated for each rerun.

If you're not seeing this behavior anymore (that all tests rerun in all situations of rerunning in github-action) then this may have been addressed on the Cloud side. I know they did do some work around better detecting unique identifiers of reruns.

If you're seeing the correct behavior on reruns, we can just remove the entire warning section.

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I'm not sure if I have enough information to rework the warning, since it describes in part how Cypress Cloud works and this is not open source, so I would be limited to reverse engineering, which is not the ideal basis to provide definitive documentation.

The first step would be in any case for the Cypress (Cloud) team to review this part of the documentation.

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@ryanpei Are you still involved in this area, and if so, could you comment?

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Thanks @MikeMcC399 , I will try to find someone on our side who knows the exact behavior here. I'm not sure if "Re-run jobs" (as opposed to just the failed jobs, specifically) would re-run only on the containers which had failed. But otherwise this sounds right.

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Yes, @MikeMcC399 's suggested edits are correct

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@ryanpei

Thanks for your confirmation! Unfortunately since I haven't really understood the original warning text I have great difficulty in revising it sensibly, so I'm not able to resolve this issue on my own.

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@jennifer-shehane

• Thanks for your feedback! I have not seen any evidence of the problem you describe still being in existence so I have gone ahead and submitted a PR #1113 which removes the warning section and replaces it with advice about avoiding "Re-run jobs" > "Re-run failed jobs". It also adds a reference to Cloud options:

• Spec Prioritization

• Auto Cancellation

Note that

• #531

is still open.

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