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(Optionally) Ref to a branch and if it doesn't exist, use default #512
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Thinking about this further, I guess I can just run a bash command before this to define the branch name and export a variable to use in the checkout action. But if I have multiple repos this would become a lot of copy paste code for each repo 😄 I'm just wondering wether there's built-in way, or maybe a potential feature? |
Looking for the same feature here! Any updates on this? |
Just hit this, this would be so handy. Now I'm thinking I'll also take a route of checking if the branch is available in the other repo. |
Is there a workaround for this? |
@vinayakkulkarni here is a pattern that I have been using. https://github.com/hse-project/hse/blob/master/.github/workflows/builds.yaml#L99 Determine if branch exists using |
I have a similar use case and was hoping actions/checkout would have something like a
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For anyone looking for other simple options, you can use steps:
- name: Try checkout on first branch
uses: actions/checkout@v4
id: bad-checkout
continue-on-error: true
with:
repository: actions/checkout
ref: some-bad-branch
# If the first checkout fails, we checkout the `main` branch by default
- name: Fallback to main branch
if: steps.bad-checkout.outcome == 'failure'
uses: actions/checkout@v4
with:
repository: actions/checkout
ref: main |
Hey!
Is there a way to get a
ref
to work like an optional OR? For example:My use-case: I have multiple repos that depend on each other sometimes. If they do, they all share the same branch name for a feature (e.g
feature/add-tests
). I want to pull the repos with those branches when they exist, but if they don't (as it's not always necessary to change code in all repos), it'll pullmaster
.Thanks!
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