Hello.

I am trying to understand how to write a workflow. Basically, what I want to do is:

1. Run a job with an action called technote-space/get-diff-action. This saves the diffs in an environment variable called GIT_DIFF.
2. After this I have five jobs that run tests. I only want to run these if: env.GIT_DIFF, but the environment variable is created in another job so I don’t know how to refer to it.

Any idea how I can do this?

This is a reference workflow.yaml file:

jobs:
  get_git_diff:
    runs-on: self-hosted
    name: Get git diff
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
        name: Checkout this repository
      - uses: kartikdc/get-diff-action@5.0.0
        name: Get git diff
        id: get_git_diff
        with:
          PATTERNS: |
            !.version
            !README.md
            !docs/**
            !.github/**
eslint_check:

if: jobs.get_git_diff.steps.get_git_diff.env.GIT_DIFF

needs: cancel_previous_actions

timeout-minutes: 10

runs-on: [self-hosted]

name: Run eslint check

steps:

Obviously this doesn’t work. Can someone tell me how I can achieve the desired result? Running the diff check in another job would be cool because there are multiple test jobs. Otherwise, I would have to add it as a step in all jobs.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.