After rebase is done new pull_request/push event doesn't trigger the workflow

[jurenovic]

Hello
I tried to set this thing up but however I've put it it didn't fire the workflow after the pull request was rebased.

I have created a very simple repo demonstrating the issue. Branch master is protected and it needs to be up to date before merging. In the sample there is a master and a feature branch.

* 86bd7db (HEAD -> master, origin/master) third master
| * 4c8948b (origin/feature-1, feature-1) feature first
|/
* 001c1ee second master
* b688c44 first commit

the repo is https://github.com/jurenovic/test-rebase

Can you please help me since I would really like having rebasing feature from PR comments.

Many thanks

[fkorotkov]

It's Actions limitation. See docs:

An action in a workflow run can't trigger a new workflow run. For example, if an action pushes code using the repository's GITHUB_TOKEN, a new workflow will not run even when the repository contains a workflow configured to run when push events occur.

There is also discussion on developer forum: https://github.community/t5/GitHub-Actions/Triggering-a-new-workflow-from-another-workflow/td-p/31676

[jurenovic]

Thank you. I have tried it with a bot access token and it works. As a suggestion maybe add a line about this to the readme.

[sebastian-toepfer]

@jurenovic: same issue, but doesn't understand your solution. can you explain me what you mean with a bot access token, please.

[jurenovic]

@sebastian-toepfer In our company we have a github user (a bot account) from times of Jenkins. So for this to work properly I have used bot user personal access token.

[sebastian-toepfer]

@jurenovic: thanks, okay we use an access-token from a normal user, but it doesn't work.