From 3257ea97d2420969be840ca04fd200a7e1d4374f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mridul Seth <git@mriduls.com>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2026 16:47:40 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] [CI] Publish nightly reduced data files

---
 .github/workflows/nightly.yml | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 53 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/nightly.yml b/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
index 4bdce9fac..7eb424162 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 name: Nightly Tests
 
 on:
+  pull_request:
   workflow_dispatch:
   schedule:
     - cron: "30 1 * * 1-5"
@@ -23,6 +24,16 @@ jobs:
           - essreflectometry
           - esssans
           - essspectroscopy
+        # Packages whose tests write reduced data files via the --file-output
+        # pytest option. Their output is collected and published to the
+        # `reduced_data_nightly` release by the `publish` job below. To publish data
+        # from another package, add a `--file-output`/`output_folder` fixture to
+        # its conftest and list it here.
+        include:
+          - package: essdiffraction
+            file_output: true
+          - package: essreflectometry
+            file_output: true
     runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v6
@@ -34,7 +45,48 @@ jobs:
           frozen: true
           environments: ${{ matrix.package }}
       - name: Run tests
-        run: pixi run -e ${{ matrix.package }} test ${{ matrix.package }}
+        run: pixi run -e ${{ matrix.package }} test ${{ matrix.package }} ${{ matrix.file_output && '-- --file-output=tests_outputs' || '' }}
+      - name: Upload reduced data files
+        if: matrix.file_output
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
+        with:
+          name: reduced-data-${{ matrix.package }}
+          path: tests_outputs/
+          if-no-files-found: warn
+
+  publish:
+    name: Publish nightly reduced data
+    needs: test
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+      - name: Download reduced data files
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v8
+        with:
+          path: ./artifacts
+          pattern: reduced-data-*
+          merge-multiple: true
+      - name: Publish to nightly release
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          shopt -s nullglob
+          files=(./artifacts/*)
+          if [ ${#files[@]} -eq 0 ]; then
+            echo "No reduced data files were produced; nothing to publish."
+            exit 0
+          fi
+          echo "Publishing ${#files[@]} file(s):"
+          printf '  %s\n' "${files[@]}"
+          gh release delete reduced_data_nightly --yes --cleanup-tag 2>/dev/null || true
+          gh release create reduced_data_nightly \
+            --target "${{ github.sha }}" \
+            --title "Nightly reduced data files" \
+            --notes "Automated nightly build from $(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%MZ) (commit ${GITHUB_SHA::7})" \
+            --prerelease \
+            "${files[@]}"
 
   lower-bound:
     name: Lower bound ${{ matrix.package }}

From 904a6a0bcac3dd8497ea4b4bcc9d1f90b219a33d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mridul Seth <git@mriduls.com>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2026 17:00:46 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] remove trigger

---
 .github/workflows/nightly.yml | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/nightly.yml b/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
index 7eb424162..cb92ffc39 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 name: Nightly Tests
 
 on:
-  pull_request:
   workflow_dispatch:
   schedule:
     - cron: "30 1 * * 1-5"