GitHub Actions events

2023-09-01

At Release Engineers I've decided to set up a project to capture GitHub Actions workflow events together with all context variables available to a workflow. With these captures you'll know exactly what you can expect from GitHub. Keep in mind your own workflows may receive events differently; so if you'd like to capture this information as I do for yourself, check out my reference implementation.

Captures

on:
- branch_protection_rule:
  - created
  - deleted
  - edited
- create
- delete
- discussion:
  - created
  - deleted
  - locked
  - pinned
  - unlocked
  - unpinned
- discussion_comment:
  - created
- fork
- gollum
- issue_comment:
  - created
- issues:
  - assigned
  - closed
  - demilestoned
  - labeled
  - locked
  - milestoned
  - opened
  - pinned
  - unlocked
  - unpinned
- label:
  - created
  - deleted
  - edited
- milestone:
  - closed
  - created
  - deleted
  - opened
- pull_request:
  - closed (the main event for merging a pull request)
  - opened
  - ready_for_review
  - synchronize
- pull_request_review:
  - edited
  - submitted
- pull_request_review_comment:
  - created
- pull_request_target:
- push
- release:
- watch:
  - started
- workflow_call

That's all, folks!

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