fix(ci): publish from the last commit actually published

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A publish that gets cancelled is never retried, and nothing reports it.

What happens

The selector diffs github.event.before..github.sha — only the commits of the push that triggered it. A concurrency group holds just one pending run, so when several merges land minutes apart the middle ones are cancelled. The next push's github.event.before is then the cancelled push's head, so no later diff ever spans the skipped commits again.

The work is not delayed. It is dropped, silently, with every run green.

It already happened

In JarbasHiveMind/hivemind-docker on 2026-09-09, three merges landed within 30 minutes:

16:02  271aff80  cancelled
16:05  bb56e607  cancelled     <- touched base/Dockerfile
16:30  3601ef37  success       <- diffed from bb56e607, so never saw it

base/ is the root of that bake graph, so bb56e607 should have rebuilt every image. Two days later hivemind-cli, hivemind-listener and hivemind-satellite at :testing were still built from 6087d744, a commit older than that change — while the compose files an install runs came from a tag that included it.

It surfaced only because a new cross-repo image-coherence check went looking (ovos-installer#603); no CI in either repository was unhappy.

The change

Selection starts from the last commit this workflow published successfully, falling back to github.event.before when that cannot be resolved (first run on a branch, unreachable commit, gh unavailable). A cancelled or failed publish is therefore picked up by the next one.

This repository has the identical selector and concurrency group, so it has the same latent gap even though the loss happened in the sibling.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved change detection for push-triggered publishing by comparing updates with the most recently successful publish, helping ensure all affected targets are identified correctly.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The push-triggered publish workflow now compares changes against the latest successful workflow run when its commit is available locally. It falls back to the event-provided commit otherwise.

Changes

Publish diff base

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Resolve the last successful publish commit .github/workflows/on-push.yml	The select job adds GH_TOKEN, queries the latest successful on-push.yml run for the current branch, validates the returned commit locally, and uses it as BEFORE when available.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ae457

Failed or cancelled publish changes can be skipped instead of retried. Grant the select job workflow-run read access before merging.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main CI change: publishing from the last commit that the workflow successfully published.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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In @.github/workflows/on-push.yml:
- Line 34: Update the select job’s permissions to grant both actions: read and
contents: read, alongside the existing GH_TOKEN configuration, so gh run list
can read workflow runs without falling back to github.event.before.

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