I’m trying to avoid one job to run conditionnally. For instance, let’s say I want to control a “/rebase” command to only trigger the rebase job steps on PR:

on:
  issue_comment:
    types: [created]
name: PR commands

jobs:

rebase:

name: Rebase

if: github.event.issue.pull_request != '' && contains(github.event.comment.body, '/rebase')

runs-on: ubuntu-latest

steps:

- uses: actions/checkout@master

- name: Automatic Rebase

uses: cirrus-actions/rebase@1.2

env:

GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

The issue is that the workflow will exit in error (and so, send failure emails). In the Action UI, clicking on it will redirect to the previous running workflow of another type.

One workaround right now is to let the job starting, and duplicate the condition on each step:

on:
  issue_comment:
    types: [created]
name: PR commands

jobs:

rebase:

name: Rebase

runs-on: ubuntu-latest

steps:

- uses: actions/checkout@master

if: github.event.issue.pull_request != '' && contains(github.event.comment.body, '/rebase')

- name: Automatic Rebase

uses: cirrus-actions/rebase@1.2

if: github.event.issue.pull_request != '' && contains(github.event.comment.body, '/rebase')

env:

GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Is there any way to completely prevent the job to start, and thus, avoiding the cirrus-actions/rebase@1.2 docker image action build?