Allow bot to ignore changed files e.g. when github api has not properly updated file count

[smuzaffar]

See https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/200746

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @smuzaffar for branch master.

@akritkbehera, @cmsbuild, @iarspider, @raoatifshad, @smuzaffar can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@ftenchini, @mandrenguyen, @sextonkennedy you are the release manager for this.
cms-bot commands are listed here

[cmsbuild]

cms-bot internal usage

[iarspider]

any(line == "<cmsbot ignore-changed-files/>" for line in ensure_ascii(pr.body).split("\n"))

[iarspider]

@smuzaffar should I forward-port this to the new bot?

[smuzaffar]

thanks @iarspider

[cmsbuild]

Pull request #2806 was updated.

[smuzaffar]

please test with cms-sw/root#233 for CMSSW_20_1_ROOT6_X

[smuzaffar]

abort

[smuzaffar]

please test

[smuzaffar]

+externals

bot processign showed no issues, so let merge it so that bot can properly process cms-sw/root#233

[cmsbuild]

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next master IBs after it passes the integration tests. This pull request will now be reviewed by the release team before it's merged. @sextonkennedy, @mandrenguyen, @ftenchini (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)

[cmsbuild]

+1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-ae6731/54469/summary.html
COMMIT: ce2dbae
CMSSW: CMSSW_20_1_X_2026-07-01-2300/el9_amd64_gcc13
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week0/cms-sw/cms-bot/2806/54469/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially removed 1 lines from the logs
• ROOTFileChecks: Some differences in event products or their sizes found
• Reco comparison results: 0 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 45
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3414477
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 70
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3414389
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 18
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 44 files compared)
• Checked 195 log files, 163 edm output root files, 45 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found