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Common steps for all workflows? #25901
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In most of my runners, the first couple of steps are identical, since they setup a common environment. Is it possible to bundle common steps in one place and use them from other workflows? It is error prone to maintain these steps in every workflow independently. |
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That sounds like using the recently introduced composite actions might help. They allow you to combine a bunch of |
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When
is supported, this is exactly what I need. Do you know if there is a timeline on that? |
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Unfortunately not, I don’t have access to Github’s internal planning either. I only know they’re working on it: actions/runner#646 |
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That sounds like using the recently introduced composite actions might help. They allow you to combine a bunch of
runsteps into a reusable action. Note that using other actions in composites is not supported yet, so you’d still have to do things like checkout in each workflow.