Accelerating Unity Through Automation: Power Up Your Unity Workflow by Offloading Intensive Tasks

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S. JacksonAccelerating Unity Through Automationhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9508-3_11

11. Setting Up GitHub Actions

Simon Jackson¹  

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Warrington, Cheshire, UK

 

Originally, GitHub was just about source control, a safe and decentralized offering to host your code for free (if it was public and open source). When Microsoft bought GitHub, things started to evolve and grow; one of the biggest areas of growth was in automation. From that date, Microsoft saw an opportunity to learn from how they evolved their original Azure Pipelines automation and start afresh with those learnings, eventually growing GitHub Actions into a competing product with their own ...