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GitHub Actions Cookbook

You're reading from   GitHub Actions Cookbook A practical guide to automating repetitive tasks and streamlining your development process

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835468944
Length 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Michael Kaufmann Michael Kaufmann
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: GitHub Actions Workflows FREE CHAPTER 2. Chapter 2: Authoring and Debugging Workflows 3. Chapter 3: Building GitHub Actions 4. Chapter 4: The Workflow Runtime 5. Chapter 5: Automate Tasks in GitHub with GitHub Actions 6. Chapter 6: Build and Validate Your Code 7. Chapter 7: Release Your Software with GitHub Actions 8. Index 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Developing workflows in branches

Starting in a greenfield repository, it is best to create your workflows on the main branch. However, if you must create the workflow in an active repository that developers are working in and you don’t want to get in their way, then it is possible to write workflows in a branch and merge them back to the main branch using a pull request.

However, some triggers might not work as expected. If you want to run your workflow manually using the workflow_dispatch trigger, your first action must be to merge the workflow with the trigger back to main or use the API to trigger the workflow. After that, you can author the workflow in a branch and select the branch when triggering the workflow through the UI.

If your workflow needs webhook triggers, such as push, pull_request, or pull_request_target, it might be necessary to create the workflow in a fork of the repository, depending on what you plan on doing with the triggers. This way, you can test...

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