I've been working on maintenance on this GitHub repo that has been left undeveloped for almost a year. When rerunning the GitHub Actions job that finished to completion last May, there are now issu...

I have written a github actions workflow yml file to schedule a job to run everyday at a particular time but it's not working. I have even used the cron written in official doc but still it is not ...

I have a github action that is triggered when a release is created. The goal is to: Find the tag on which the release was based Find the previous tag on that branch So far, I have this: CURRENT_T...

I have a self-hosted Azure DevOps Pipeline build agent and would like to download and install Python from the Github repository if it is not already available in the agent tools directory. The offi...

I am running Pylint on the GitHub actions. Before it runs, it installs the module playsound during the dependencies installation. The checks all failed with Python 3.8, 3.9, and 3.10. It seems to f...

I am getting following error : create_nuget The file '/home/runner/work/MyNugetPackage/MyNugetPackage/MyNugetPackage/bin/Release/net6.0/MyNugetPackage.dll' to be packed was not found on disk. This...

We have a few branch policies to protect one of the branches in the github repo. One policy is that the deployment to the specified environment must be successful. But even after the deployment is ...

So, I'm working with Github Actions on end-to-end testing. The setup I'm looking at is having one job retrieve a list of urls to be tested, and my second job creates a matrix with that list and tes...

I find it unproductive to edit yml file, then push a new commit again, and repeat the process hundreds of times until you make it right. I began thinking about how to automate this tedious process....

So I have a github workflow that calls a composite action at the end, regardless of success or failure. I want to pass whether or not the workflow has succeeded to the action to use within it. I ha...

Using act to locally test github-actions via Docker, I am getting a variety of TS errors (TS2345, TS18046, TS2339, etc...) during my github-action workflow. These errors are not observed during loc...

When using branch protection on a repository, you can specify Require status checks to pass before merging. You can search for a job that is used by one of your workflows within the repository by t...

I have a team called "team-core" in GitHub. This team has Write access to a certain private repository: I have an environment "qa" set up for this repository in GitHub. I want ...

I am trying to run my github runner as root for self hosted linux servers. Can anyone point me to easy solution that I can implement quickly in following code: name: Test on: push jobs: Test1: ru...

I did a misconfiguration with concurrency, initially in the root of my GitHub Actions workflow, and moved to a sub workflow (workflow_call). Since, I have a workflow that is stuck with label: I tr...

Official github actions documentation says I can set the defaults to specfify defaults settings for all jobs (https://help.github.com/en/actions/reference/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#default...

Context On https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions/environment-variables they describe a way to add an environment variable with yaml: jobs: job_name: env: NAME: value On https:...

I am a maintainer of a few Julia GitHub repositories which use GitHub Actions for nightly CI runs, via cron. Some of these packages do not get maintenance for months but are used within the ecosyst...

In the below syntax: jobs: testing: name: some test runs-on: [ self-hosted, linux, xyz ] steps: - name: Set up Go uses: actions/setup-go@v2 with: go-version: 1.15.0 id: go - name: Config...

I had tried using paths-ignore that I read about from https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/code-scanning/automatically-scanning-your-code-for-vulnerabilities-and-errors/configuring-code-scannin...

I have a problem, when I want to get the job id using the GitHub context in yaml file, it responds with a String: - name: Test run: | sendEmail ${{github.job]} I obtain this response: sendEmail...

In GitHub Workflow I'm looking for a build-in variable which would contain the name of the current GH deployment environment (e.g. "staging") or be blank/unset if no such thing exist. Sin...

Besides success and failed, is there any warning state for Github Actions? How to set one for an action that is not owned by me? E.g. Github Actions return code 1 (error), in this case I only want ...

You can set env vars available across the entire workflow e.g. like in this post. (From solution on linked post) name: Git Pull Request Workflow on: workflow_dispatch: pull_request: branches: ...

I created a fresh new Blazor WASM project targeting .NET 8 and want to deploy it to Azure Static Web App service using GitHub actions but I keep getting an error that tells me that .NET version 8 i...