Feature request: Deployments point to wrong commits

[szatanjl]

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I have following git history:

commit0 <-- main
commit1
...
commit2 <-- tag v1.0.0
...

I have a workflow to deploy tags into environment. It is a workflow_dispatch and I run it by hand. One of the parameters is tag to deploy. And so I tell the workflow to deploy tag v1.0.0 to dev env. It build correct tag and deploys correct software. But at no point did I tell GitHub actions what it is deploying. Because it is workflow_dispatch the github.sha is set to main, not to v1.0.0.

And so then on "Deployment history" GitHub is telling me that I just deployed commit0 (main) onto dev env, which is not true. I deployed v1.0.0.

There should be an option to specify what am I deploying (defaulting to github.sha if not specified). For example

environment:
  name: dev
  commit: ${{ inputs.sha }}

[fmal]

@szatanjl yeah that would be nice, in the meantime i recommend using https://github.com/chrnorm/deployment-action action which let's you provide sha as ref input.

You could also use gh api command (https://docs.github.com/en/rest/deployments/deployments?apiVersion=2022-11-28#create-a-deployment) and provide sha via ref field:

  gh api repos/OWNER/REPO/deployments \
    --method POST \
    --header "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
    --field ref='SHA' \
    --field environment='dev'