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Disable the new release check #2107
Description
Describe the feature or problem you’d like to solve
In case we aren't using the latest CLI version, every time we run the CLI locally or inside a CI job, we get a message like the next:
A new release of gh is available: 0.10.1 → v1.0.0
https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/tag/v1.0.0
This message is printed to the stderr (which generates unnecessary noise in CI jobs) and also it causes a small delay due to the external request, so we would like to be able to disable this check in some way.
Proposed solution
A switch to enable/disable the new release check. For example, by using an environment variable GHCLI_CHECK_UPDATES=<true|false> and/or a new boolean setting check_updates for the gh config command.
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samcoe commentedon Oct 7, 2020
@danielfn This seems like a good idea to me. My preference would be to have both an environment variable and a configuration setting. I think
GH_UPDATE_CHECK<disabled | enabled>for the environment variable andupdate_check<disabled | enabled>for the configuration setting sound good. cc @ampinsk for design input.cc #743
mislav commentedon Oct 7, 2020
@danielfn Sorry for the nuisance! Agreed that there should be a way to disable the notifications. Furthermore, I think that update checks should never run in CI environments by default.
Closing as duplicate of #743 - follow that for updates!
mislav commentedon Oct 9, 2020
@danielfn From the next release, update checker will be automatically disabled in CI environments (detected by the presence of environment variables such as
CI) #2134danielfn commentedon Oct 10, 2020
@mislav Great! Thanks for the heads up :)