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GitHub Actions bot email address? #26560
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I wanted to commit to the repository from within a workflow. Simply running: works, but GitHub action’s icon doesn’t show up.
I couldn’t find the correct email address for the bot anywhere. Any help would be appreciated! |
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[nvm, readed words wrong] |
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This is an expected behavior. In commits author field, it will not show the black github-actions bot icon, just a gray one. It shows the name you specify in git config user.name. Github Actions bot is just a bot account when you do operations with GITHUB_TOKEN. In pull requests, issues page, you can see its icon, but not in commits. Sorry for any inconvenience. |
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Would it be easy for GitHub to just assign an email address to the bot account so that commits with that email address would show the bot’s avatar? |
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I believe I was able to determine a valid email address to use by copying the format they use for dependabot: https://api.github.com/users/dependabot-preview[bot]/events/public All of the commits are from …where 27856297 is the user ID for dependabot[bot]. So I tried: and it seemed to work: |
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Trying to get the GitHub |
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The email address suggested by @ericnorris actually works: Using this for
https://api.github.com/users/github-actions[bot] seems to be the API entry for the |
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Yep! This is amazing. @weibeld +rep to you my dude. Just go to https://api.github.com/users/better-informatics[bot] and use the ID from there :slight_smile: |
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When you want to tag commit as GitHub Actions then:
then |
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I came here looking for the GHA email so I can create tags with an action - and found this wonderfully helpful message. I wasn't totally sure on how |
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This is an expected behavior. In commits author field, it will not show the black github-actions bot icon, just a gray one. It shows the name you specify in git config user.name.
Github Actions bot is just a bot account when you do operations with GITHUB_TOKEN. In pull requests, issues page, you can see its icon, but not in commits. Sorry for any inconvenience.