How can I not execute a GitHub Action when I push a new tag?

Question

I want that my GitHub Action that runs all tests doesn't execute when we push a new tag to the master repository because when we merge new branches we execute this action before, and when we push a tag to create a new release this action executes again.

Right now this action starts with this

name: Build and Test on: push

As you see this will execute in every push we would make, and I want to change that this action will execute only when we push commits, no tags. My approximate solution would be this but I am not sure

name: Build and Test on: push: branches: - '*' tags-ignore: - '*'

pschale · Accepted Answer · 2022-04-15 03:55:04Z

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That should work, but I'd recommend two improvements.

First, use ** instead of * (the edge case here is a branch/tag named /).

Second, omit the tags-ignore clause. In my testing, Github ignores all tags if you specify branches but not tags or tags-ignore.

name: Build and Test on: push: branches: - '**'

answered Apr 15, 2022 at 3:55

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Taylor j. Eke Over a year ago

Can confirm this works. This is very helpful if your pipeline builds on each commit sha, the tag build would be purely redundant.

NegatioN Over a year ago

Just want to highlight that I ended up getting this error unless I explicitly set --tags-ignore: - '**'. i.e. the tag push was rejected even though my workflow only accepted this push-trigger. on: push: branches: -master

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