Why isn't this workflow with both `on.push.paths` and `on.push.tags` running? #26821

SyntaxColoring · 2021-10-02T01:40:59Z

SyntaxColoring
Oct 2, 2021

We have a workflow that we want to run whenever either of the following are true:

A push, to any branch, modifies certain paths.
A tag is pushed that looks like docs@foo.

Here is what we have so far:

  <a href="https://github.com/Opentrons/opentrons/blob/26f8ea431ca75881c71a24d887b85daae1d4738c/.github/workflows/docs-build.yaml#L7-L18" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">github.com</a>

Opentrons/opentrons/blob/26f8ea431ca75881c71a24d887b85daae1d4738c/.github/workflows/docs-build.yaml#L7-L18

    
      
          on:
            push:
              paths:
                - 'api/src/opentrons/protocol_api/**'
                - 'api/docs/**'
                - '.github/workflows/docs-build.yaml'
                - '.github/actions/python/**'
                - '.github/actions/webstack/deploy-to-sandbox/**'
                - '.github/workflows/utils.js'
              tags:
                - 'docs@*'
            workflow_dispatch:

Unexpectedly, this does not seem to run at all when a commit modifies the designated paths but isn’t tagged with docs@foo. Here’s an example PR that I expect to trigger the workflow, but doesn’t.

What am I missing? I expect on.push.paths and on.push.tags to be evaluated with a logical OR. Is it logical AND instead, or something?

Answered by airtower-luna

Oct 3, 2021

See the documentation:

If you define only tags or only branches , the workflow won’t run for events affecting the undefined Git ref.

So if you want the workflow to run for any branch in addition to the matching tags, add something like

    branches:    
      - '**'

to the the push conditions. Note that either way the workflow will only run if the path filter matches.

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kingthorin · 2021-10-03T02:16:53Z

kingthorin
Oct 3, 2021

Push != PR

This will only run for pushes that modify something in the designated paths and are tagged as expected.

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airtower-luna · 2021-10-03T10:23:11Z

airtower-luna
Oct 3, 2021

See the documentation:

If you define only tags or only branches , the workflow won’t run for events affecting the undefined Git ref.

So if you want the workflow to run for any branch in addition to the matching tags, add something like

    branches:    
      - '**'

to the the push conditions. Note that either way the workflow will only run if the path filter matches.

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Why isn't this workflow with both on.push.paths and on.push.tags running? #26821

SyntaxColoring Oct 2, 2021

Opentrons/opentrons/blob/26f8ea431ca75881c71a24d887b85daae1d4738c/.github/workflows/docs-build.yaml#L7-L18

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airtower-luna Oct 3, 2021

Why isn't this workflow with both `on.push.paths` and `on.push.tags` running? #26821

SyntaxColoring
Oct 2, 2021

kingthorin
Oct 3, 2021

airtower-luna
Oct 3, 2021