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+name: Unit Tests
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    paths-ignore:
+      - 'vendor/*'
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - release-*
+
+# cancel the in-progress workflow when PR is refreshed.
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.head_ref || github.sha }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+    unittests:
+      name: unittests
+      runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+      steps:
+        - name: checkout     
+          uses: actions/checkout@v4
+          with:
+            fetch-depth: 1
+        - name: setup go    
+          uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+          with: 
+            go-version-file: go.mod
+            check-latest: true
+        - name:  run unit tests
+          run:   make test