README.md

initialize-variables

An action to check if a "full build" should be run by inspecting commit message and manual input for push, pull request, and manual runs (workflow_dispatch).

Usage

To provide a workflow_dispatch input (e.g. to do a manual full build from the UI), add the following to your on block:

on:
  # Allow for manual runs to override whether or not a "full build" is run
  workflow_dispatch:
    ci-full:
      description: "Run Full CI Build"
      required: false
      type: boolean
      default: false

To utilize this action, add it in a block like so:

initialize:
runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
outputs:
  FULL_BUILD: ${{ steps.initialize.outputs.FULL_BUILD || steps.initialize.outputs.FULL_BUILD || steps.initialize.outputs.FULL_BUILD }}

steps:
  - name: Checkout
    uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6
    with:
      fetch-depth: 2

  - name: Initialize variables
    uses: actions-ext/general/initialize-variables@v1
    id: initialize
    with:
        full: ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && github.event.inputs.ci-full }}

You can now condition steps like so:

  do_some_heavy_build:
    needs: [initialize]
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    if: ${{ needs.initialize.outputs.FULL_BUILD == 'true' }}

Options

This action will set FULL_BUILD output in 2 ways:

• provide full: true input to the action
• have [ci-full] in the commit message or PR title