Questions tagged [github-actions]
GitHub Actions allows you to easily automate your software workflows. Use this tag for questions regarding help on creating a workflow. If you need help on GitHub Actions in general, consider contacting GitHub by emailing their support (support.github.com/contact) or by asking in GitHub's Community Forum (github.com/orgs/community/discussions.
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How to get the current branch within Github Actions?
I'm building Docker images with Github Actions and want to tag images with the branch name.
I found the GITHUB_REF variable, but it results in refs/heads/feature-branch-1 and I need only feature-...
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How to run a github-actions step, even if the previous step fails, while still failing the job
I'm trying to follow an example Github has for testing my build with github actions, and then compressing the test results and uploading them as an artifact.
https://help.github.com/en/actions/...
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Running actions in another directory
I've just started exploring Github actions however I've found myself placing a command in multiple places.
I have a PHP project where the composer.json is not in the root, my structure looks like:
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How to apt-get install in a GitHub Actions workflow?
In the new GitHub Actions, I am trying to install a package in order to use it in one of the next steps.
name: CI
on: [push, pull_request]
jobs:
translations:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
...
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How can I run GitHub Actions workflows locally?
I am planning to move our Travis CI build to GitHub Actions using Docker for our per-commit testing.
Can I reproducibly run these new GitHub Actions workflows locally? Is there a generic way to run ...
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How do I set an env var with a bash expression in GitHub Actions?
In GitHub Actions, I'd like to evaluate a bash expression and then assign it to an environment variable:
- name: Tag image
env:
GITHUB_SHA_SHORT: ${{ $(echo $GITHUB_SHA | cut -c 1-6)...
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Only run job on specific branch with GitHub Actions
I'm relatively new to GitHub Actions and I have 2 jobs–one that runs my tests, and one that deploys my project onto a server.
Obviously I want the tests to run on every branch, but deploying should ...
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How to resolve "refusing to allow an OAuth App to create or update workflow" on git push
Getting
refusing to allow an OAuth App to create or update workflow .github/workflows/cd.yml without workflow scope"
on git push. How to grant workflow scope?
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Dependencies Between Workflows on Github Actions
I have a monorepo with two workflows:
.github/workflows/test.yml
name: test
on: [push, pull_request]
jobs:
test-packages:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v1
...
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Github Action: Split Long Command into Multiple Lines
I have a Github action command that is really long:
name: build
on: [push]
jobs:
build:
runs-on: ubuntu-18.04
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v1
- name: ...
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Github actions share workspace/artifacts between jobs?
Trying to use Github's beta actions, I have two jobs, one that builds the code and then one that will deploy code. However, I can't seem to get the build artifact in deploy job.
My latest attempt is ...
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Delete a workflow from GitHub Actions
I created a couple workflows in the .github/workflows folder of my repository to experiment with GitHub Actions. I have since learned quite a bit and deleted said experimental workflows from my repo. ...
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How to run GitHub Actions workflow only if the pushed files are in a specific folder
I have a folder structure that looks something like this.
- folder1
- file1
- *other files*
- folder2
- file1
- *other files*
- .gitignore
- package.json
- *other files*
I want to run my ...
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Get the current pushed tag in Github Actions
Is there a way to access the current tag that has been pushed in a Github Action? In CircleCI you can access this value with the $CIRCLE_TAG variable.
My Workflow yaml is being triggered by a tag like ...
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In a github actions workflow, is there a way to have multiple jobs reuse the same setup?
I recently hooked up my project with github actions for continuous integration. I created two separate jobs: the first one checks if the code in the pull request is accepted by our linter, and the ...
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Github Actions - trigger another action after one action is completed
I have one action (a yaml file) for deploying a docker image to Google Cloud Run.
I would like to receive Slack or Email messages informing the build and push results.
How could the message action be ...
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Set default Timeout on Github action pipeline
Normally, my pipelines take 15 minutes to execute.
Recently, for some strange reasons, some pipelines take between 45 minutes and 6 hours to fail.
Is it possible to set a default timeout limit on ...
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Repository 'http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease' changed its 'Suite' value from 'stable' to 'oldstable'
Some of my GitHub Actions workflows started recently to return this error when installing Chromedriver:
Get:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease [65.4 kB]
Get:2 http://...
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GitHub Actions: how can I run a workflow created on a non-'master' branch from the 'workflow_dispatch' event?
For actions working on a third party repository, I would like to be able to create an action on a branch and execute it on the workflow_dispatch event. I have not succeeded in doing this, but I have ...
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GitHub Action workflow not running
I have a GitHub action workflow file @ myrepo/.github/workflows/Build Webpage.yml it contains this:
name: Webpage Build
on:
push:
branches:
- webpage
jobs:
build:
runs-on: ...
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GitHub Actions: how to target all branches EXCEPT master?
I want to be able to let an action run on any given branch except master.
I am aware that there is a prebuilt filter action, but I want the exact opposite.
More like GitLab's except keyword.
Since ...
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Using output from a previous job in a new one in a GitHub Action
For (mainly) pedagogical reasons, I'm trying to run this workflow in GitHub actions:
name: "We 🎔 Perl"
on:
issues:
types: [opened, edited, milestoned]
jobs:
seasonal_greetings:
runs-on: ...
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Clear cache in GitHub Actions
I am working on an R package and using GitHub Action (GHA) as a Continuous Integration (CI) provider. I cache R packages (dependencies) by using actions/cache. And now I want to clear all cache. How ...
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How to run multiple commands in one Github Actions Docker
What is the right way for running multiple commands in one action?
For example:
I want to run a python script as action. Before running this script I need to install the requirements.txt.
I can ...
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How do I use an env file with GitHub Actions?
I have multiple environments (dev, qa, prod) and I'm using .env files to store secrets etc... Now I'm switching to GitHub Actions, and I want to use my .env files and declare them into the env section ...
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"Resource not accessible by integration" on github post /repos/{owner}/{repo}/actions/runners/registration-token API
I am making a curl post request from my github workflow (action) to get registration token for a self-hosted runner but I am receiving the following response:
{
"message": "Resource ...
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GitHub Actions: Run step on specific OS
I'm using GitHub Actions to run a workflow on multiple operating systems.
However, there is a specific step that I have to run only on Ubuntu:
runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
strategy:
matrix:
...
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Reuse portion of github action across jobs
I have a workflow for CI in a monorepo, for this workflow two projects end up being built. The jobs run fine, however, I'm wondering if there is a way to remove the duplication in this workflow.yml ...
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Getting current branch and commit hash in GitHub action
I want to build a docker image using a GitHub action, migrating from TeamCity.
In the build script, I want to tag the image with a combination of branch and commit, e.g. master.ad959de. Testing that ...
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How do I get the output of a specific step in GitHub Actions?
I have this GitHub Actions workflow which runs tests, but now I am integrating slack notification in it. I want to get the output of the Run tests step and send it as a message in the slack step.
- ...
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Trigger Github Actions only when PR is merged
I have a github actions yaml file as follows:
name: Test deployment
on:
pull_request:
branches:
- master
jobs:
deploy:
runs-on: ubuntu-18.04
steps:
- name: Random name
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Trigger Github Action only on new tags?
Is there a possibility to trigger a GitHub action only if a new version (which comes with a new tag) is pushed? I don't want run them on every push into master, but I also want to avoid creating a ...
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Push to origin from GitHub action
I'm trying to push to origin remote from GitHub action. The logic of my action is:
handle pull_request_review events and filter by comment message
checkout to master, merge PR branch, run some checks ...
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How do I use Docker with GitHub Actions?
When I create a GitHub Actions workflow file, the example YAML file contains runs-on: ubuntu-latest. According to the docs, I only have the options between a couple versions of Ubuntu, Windows Server ...
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How to cancel previous runs in the PR when you push new commits(update the current) in github-actions
When I push my commits to a PR my tests are triggered for this commit. After that, if I push additional commits to this PR, tests in Github Actions runs on both commits.
I need to cancel the previous ...
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How can I run a GitHub Action from a branch other than 'master'?
I have a repository in GitHub and I want to create an Action to build a Docker image and push it to the Docker Hub. I know how to do it, but if I create the action in a branch other than master, ...
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Difference between Github's "Environment" and "Repository" secrets?
In the GitHub documentation it states that the precedence of secrets is from lowest to highest (Environment > Repository > Organization), it also states that the Organization secrets are ...
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How to fail a job in Github Actions?
I'm developing a Github actions workflow. This workflow runs on Linux, Mac, and Windows.
As part of the workflow, I have to check whether 2 environment variables are equal. If they don't - fail the ...
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Create dependencies between jobs in GitHub Actions
I'm new to GitHub Actions, playing with various options to work out good approaches to CI/CD pipelines.
Initially I had all my CI steps under one job, doing the following:
checkout code from repo
...
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Get current date and time in GitHub workflows
I have a GitHub workflow for releasing nightly snapshots of the repository. It uses the create-release action. This is how the workflow file looks right now:
name: Release Nightly Snapshot
on:
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Github Actions, how to share a calculated value between job steps?
Is there a DRY way to calculate and share a value in multiple job steps with Github Actions?
In the below workflow yml file, echo ${GITHUB_REF} | cut -d'/' -f3`-${GITHUB_SHA} is repeated in multiple ...
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The unauthenticated git protocol on port 9418 is no longer supported
I have been using github actions for quite sometime but today my deployments started failing. Below is the error from github action logs
Command: git
Arguments: ls-remote --tags --heads git://github....
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Cloning private github repository within organisation in actions
I have 2 private GitHub repositories (say A and B) in the organization (say ORG). Repository A has repository B in requirements.txt:
-e [email protected]:ORG/B.git#egg=B
And I have the following ...
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npm ci can only install packages with an existing package-lock.json or npm-shrinkwrap.json with lockfileVersion >= 1
This is the issue that I am facing when running the command npm ci to install dependencies in my GitHub Action file.
I am working on an expo managed app and using GitHub Actions as a CI for triggering ...
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Trigger a GitHub Action when another repository creates a new release
I'm trying to build a GitHub workflow that will be triggered when another repository creates a new release.
In the documentation, there is the paragraph: on.event_name.types where event_name will be ...
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How do I cache steps in GitHub actions?
Say I have a GitHub actions workflow with 2 steps.
Download and compile my application's dependencies.
Compile and test my application
My dependencies rarely change and the compiled dependencies can ...
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GitHub Actions - How to build project in sub-directory
I'm using GitHub Actions to build my project but my Dart project is in a sub-directory in the repository. The Action script can't find my pubspec.yaml and get the dependencies.
How can I point my ...
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How to get the short sha for the github workflow?
I am creating a workflow in GitHub which creates and uses a docker image. Therefore I have started my workflow file with a global environment variable for this docker image which is visible for all ...
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How to get the commit message in GitHub Actions
I am building an action that does a build for a project that will go to Netlify. In the action, I can pass a deploy message. In that deploy message, I want to pass in the commit message of the commit ...
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GitHub Actions: Does the IF have an ELSE?
In GitHub Actions:
I have an if, but I still need to run some other thing if I'm in the else case. Is there a clean way to do it or do I have to do another step with the same condition at false?
- if:...
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