pull_request action does not run on merge

[kuwas]

Thanks for fixing this, I've tried it and works as expected

[blane1988]

Would it make sense to have a PR event of `merged`?

[iamalisajid]

Any Success to fire the event for merge only ?

[rcasperson-jc]

Hi,

I am using

on:
  pull_request:
    types: [closed]

for my workflow trigger, without any conditionals, but it is still not triggering when a PR merges. The PR is being merged by a different GitHub Action that merges it using GitHub API with

uses: actions/github-script@0.2.0

Could that be a reason it wouldn't trigger?  If I manually merge a PR, it triggers as expected.

I've also tried

on: push

where the merge does a push, but same results. A manual merge triggers the workflow based on push, but the merge via API and the github actions bot does not trigger the workflow in question..

[blakelead]

I have the exact same problem as @rcasperson-jc:

Manually merging a pull request triggers my Action, but using the Github API in an other Action to merge a pull request does not trigger my Action.

The only difference I can see is that the merge in the latter case is done by the user github-action (bot).

Is it by design / a limitation / a bug of Github Actions?

[blakelead]

Okay I figured out why my Action wouldn't start.

As stated in the doc: "An action in a workflow run can't trigger a new workflow run" (Events that trigger workflows).

I had a script in a step that did some changes to my repo with the ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}} parameter. I expected those changes to trigger another workflow but  they didn't.

By using a personal Github token instead I was able to make it work because now the user responsible for repo changes is not github-actions who obviously cannot trigger workflow, but me.

Hope it'll save some time to people