Use docs/ as a single CI matrix entry instead of per-rst entries

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: adamtheturtle

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -119,7 +119,8 @@ jobs:
           - tests/mock_vws/test_target_validators.py
           - tests/mock_vws/test_docker.py
           - ci/test_custom_linters.py
-          - '**/*.rst'
+          - README.rst
+          - docs/
 
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v6
@@ -161,7 +162,6 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Run tests
         run: |
-          shopt -s globstar
           uv run --extra=dev \
             coverage run -m pytest \
               -s \

ci/test_custom_linters.py

@@ -7,23 +7,6 @@
 from beartype import beartype
 
 
-@beartype
-def _expand_pattern(*, ci_pattern: str) -> list[str]:
-    """Expand a CI pattern, treating shell-style globs as recursive globs.
-
-    Hidden directories (such as ``.venv``) are skipped to match bash's
-    default globbing behaviour. Patterns without glob metacharacters are
-    returned unchanged.
-    """
-    if not any(char in ci_pattern for char in "*?["):
-        return [ci_pattern]
-    return [
-        path.as_posix()
-        for path in Path().glob(pattern=ci_pattern)
-        if not any(part.startswith(".") for part in path.parts)
-    ]
-
-
 @beartype
 def _ci_patterns(*, repository_root: Path) -> set[str]:
     """Return the CI patterns given in the CI configuration file."""
@@ -69,7 +52,7 @@ def _tests_from_pattern(*, ci_pattern: str) -> set[str]:
             # Unknown config option: retry_delay
             # ```
             "--disable-warnings",
-            *_expand_pattern(ci_pattern=ci_pattern),
+            ci_pattern,
         ],
         plugins=[plugin],
     )
@@ -88,7 +71,7 @@ def test_ci_patterns_valid(request: pytest.FixtureRequest) -> None:
         collect_only_result = pytest.main(
             args=[
                 "--collect-only",
-                *_expand_pattern(ci_pattern=ci_pattern),
+                ci_pattern,
                 # Disable pytest-retry to avoid:
                 # ```
                 # ValueError: no option named 'filtered_exceptions'