Is your branch master or main? It might be silly in the future but as for October 2020 just keep in mind that the default GitHub branch has been renamed from master to main (source) So if you are copypasting actions from elsewhere, make sure that you are targeting the correct branch (for new repos … Read more
As of today (August 2021) composite action is no longer limited to run. GitHub Actions: Reduce duplication with action composition name: “Publish to Docker” description: “Pushes built artifacts to Docker” inputs: registry_username: description: “Username for image registry” required: true registry_password: description: “Password for image registry” required: true runs: using: “composite” steps: – uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v1 – … Read more
There are tools like the already-mentioned act, but they are not perfect. You are not alone with this issue. Similar problems are: how to test Jenkins builds locally how to test Circle CI builds locally how to test XXXX builds locally And my solution for these problems is: avoid functionalities provided by your CI tools … Read more
The original answer to this question used the Actions runner function set-env. Due to a security vulnerability set-env is being deprecated and should no longer be used. This is the new way to set environment variables. name: my workflow on: push jobs: build: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: – uses: actions/checkout@v2 – name: Set env run: echo … Read more