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pre-commit/action

a GitHub action to run pre-commit

using this action

To use this action, make a file .github/workflows/pre-commit.yml. Here's a template to get started:

on:
  pull_request:
  push:
    branches: [master]

jobs:
  pre-commit:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v1
    - uses: actions/setup-python@v1
    - name: set PY
      run: echo "::set-env name=PY::$(python --version --version | sha256sum | cut -d' ' -f1)"
    - uses: actions/cache@v1
      with:
        path: ~/.cache/pre-commit
        key: pre-commit|${{ env.PY }}|${{ hashFiles('.pre-commit-config.yaml') }}
    - uses: pre-commit/[email protected]

This does a few things:

  • clones the code
  • installs python
  • sets up the pre-commit cache

Hopefully in the future when actions matures the yaml can be simplified.

using this action in private repositories

this action also provides an additional behaviour when used in private repositories. when configured with a github token, the action will push back fixes to the pull request branch.

here's an example configuration for that (use the template above except for the pre-commit action):

    - uses: pre-commit/[email protected]
      with:
        token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

note that secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN is automatically provisioned and will not require any special configuration.

while you could technically configure this for a public repository (using a personal access token), I can't think of a way to do this safely without exposing a privileged token to pull requests -- if you have any ideas, please leave an issue!