Incorrect branch names in deployment history

[reidab]

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I'm using Actions with environments set to auto-create deployments. This is populating the deployment history for our repo.

We're using a git-flow process, where our main branch represents our shipped code and our develop branch is the default branch used for development.

When deploying, we merge code from develop to main, then trigger a deployment from main.

The GitHub UI seems to be looking at the last commit on main, seeing that it's a PR from develop, and showing develop as the source branch in the deployment history, even though the commit it references (the merge of the develop -> main PR) isn't present on develop.

The underlying deployment record via the API correctly attributes the source of the deployment to main, but the UI shows develop instead.

Is there any way to avoid this?

[joshft91]

I have the same issue. main kicked off the deploy workflow, but the name (develop in your screenshot) is set to my-feature-branch-example instead of showing main (in my opinion). I don't understand the reasoning to show an old branch name or PR# when the deployment was caused by a commit into main.

Here is another thread discussing this as well, I believe: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/17292