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Known Issues

GitHub Actions does automatically disable all workflow scripts after a period of time of inactivity

• Last known period: 60 days

For example, if GitHub repository has workflow scripts and was inactive a period of time, then all workflow scripts does disable. You have to either make a commit to update the period and reenable the workflow scripts manually.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67184368/prevent-scheduled-github-actions-from-becoming-disabled

git fetch error: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': terminal prompts disabled

Fetching the repository
  /usr/bin/git -c protocol.version=2 fetch --no-tags --prune --progress --no-recurse-submodules --depth=1 origin +refs/heads/master*:refs/remotes/origin/master* +refs/tags/master*:refs/tags/master*
  Error: fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': terminal prompts disabled
  The process '/usr/bin/git' failed with exit code 128
  Waiting 14 seconds before trying again

Variants:

• You missed to update the repo secrets token.

git fetch error: The process '/usr/bin/git' failed with exit code 1

Fetching the repository
  /usr/bin/git -c protocol.version=2 fetch --no-tags --prune --progress --no-recurse-submodules --depth=1 origin +refs/heads/master*:refs/remotes/origin/master* +refs/tags/master*:refs/tags/master*
  The process '/usr/bin/git' failed with exit code 1

Variants:

• The checkout performs on an empty repository: actions/checkout#746

The GitHub composite action has supported not all features of a generic GitHub action: actions/runner#646

What does Composite Run Steps Not Support

We don't support setting conditionals, continue-on-error, timeout-minutes, "uses", and secrets on individual steps within a composite action right now.

(Note: we do support these attributes being set in workflows for a step that uses a composite run steps action)

Cygwin error: Error: open /tmp/tmp.XXXXXXXXXX/...: The system cannot find the path specified.

Variants:

• You have had try to run not Cygwin executable from the Cygwin shell. The Cygwin does not convert a posix path into the Windows path automatically.

  To workaround the error do use the TEMP_DIR variable to declare explicit temporary directory out of Cygwin /tmp directory.

Linux error: Error: open /tmp/...: no such file or directory

Variants:

• You have had try to run yq from https://github.com/mikefarah/yq.

  Related issue:

  • yq fails to process files in /tmp : mikefarah/yq#1299

  To workaround the error do use the TEMP_DIR variable to declare explicit temporary directory out of Cygwin /tmp directory.

Annotations from composite actions are not correctly created

Only a single annotation gets created in composite actions. Every single annotation (error, warning, notice) with the exception of the last one gets ignored

Last known issues updates

Updates on composite actions features

• add conditional execution of action steps: actions/runner#834

  • https://github.blog/changelog/2021-11-09-github-actions-conditional-execution-of-steps-in-actions/

    Actions written in YAML, also known as composite actions, now support if conditionals.

• Add ability to use continue-on-error from composite Action steps: actions/runner#1457

• unable to inject shell to composite action: actions/runner#835

• Boolean inputs are not actually booleans : actions/runner#1483

• Annotations from composite actions are not correctly created : actions/runner#1742