CI: improve Prepare reporting by using 'continue-on-error' for silent failing

.github/workflows/sub_prepare.yml

@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ on:
       artifactBasename:
         type: string
         required: true
-      failOnOldRebase:
-        default: false
+      dontFailOnOldRebase:
+        default: true
         type: boolean
         required: false
       maxRebaseHours:
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "Base SHA is $baseSha, Head SHA is $headSha" | tee -a ${{env.reportdir}}${{ env.reportfilename }}
       - name: Check if PR has been recently rebased
         if: env.isPR == 'true'
+        continue-on-error: ${{ inputs.dontFailOnOldRebase }}
         run: |
           baseDate=$(curl -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" -H "authorization: Bearer ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}" $GITHUB_API_URL/repos/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY/commits/$baseSha | jq -r '.commit.committer.date')
           dateDiff=$(( ( $(date +%s) - $(date -d $baseDate +%s) ) / 3600 ))
@@ -96,13 +97,7 @@ jobs:
           if [ $dateDiff -gt ${{ inputs.maxRebaseHours }} ]
           then
             echo -n ":warning: Pull request should be rebased" | tee -a ${{env.reportdir}}${{ env.reportfilename }}
-            if ${{ inputs.failOnOldRebase }}
-            then
-              echo "" | tee -a ${{env.reportdir}}${{ env.reportfilename }}
-              exit 1
-            else
-              echo " ... but it is ignored by setting" | tee -a ${{env.reportdir}}${{ env.reportfilename }}
-            fi
+            exit 1
           fi
       - name: Determine base and head SHA in case of push
         if: env.isPush == 'true'