Possible to loop over commit messages in workflow action? #25164

chrisan · 2020-03-27T21:14:39Z

chrisan
Mar 27, 2020

I’m trying to loop over the commits array

- name: Test  
run: |  
commits=join(${{ github.event.commits.*.message }}, ', ')

echo $commits
commits=join(github.event.commits.*.message, ', ')

echo $commits

Which results in

2020-03-27T20:44:56.4369746Z ##[group]Run commits=join(Array, ', ')
2020-03-27T20:44:56.4370544Z [36;1m[0m
2020-03-27T20:44:56.4370939Z [36;1mcommits=join(Array, ', ')[0m
2020-03-27T20:44:56.4371347Z [36;1mecho $commits[0m
2020-03-27T20:44:56.4371738Z [36;1m[0m
2020-03-27T20:44:56.4372143Z [36;1mcommits=join(github.event.commits.*.message, ', ')[0m
2020-03-27T20:44:56.4372589Z [36;1mecho $commits[0m
2020-03-27T20:44:56.4416192Z shell: /bin/bash -e {0}

Could someone point me in the right direction on how to get this array value instead of “Array”?

Answered by Yanjingzhu

Mar 30, 2020

Hi chrisan,

Join() function can use in expressions. You need to add ${{ }} around the expression.

Please use the below syntax to get commits messages

- name: Test  
run: |  
commits=${{join(github.event.commits.*.message, ', ') }}

echo $commits

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Yanjingzhu · 2020-03-30T03:41:07Z

Yanjingzhu
Mar 30, 2020

Hi chrisan,

Join() function can use in expressions. You need to add ${{ }} around the expression.

Please use the below syntax to get commits messages

- name: Test  
run: |  
commits=${{join(github.event.commits.*.message, ', ') }}

echo $commits

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chrisan · 2020-03-31T10:58:18Z

chrisan
Mar 31, 2020
Author

Oy vey… what a dumb mistake. Thank you :slight_smile:

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