I have a repository with Dependabot in it, that opens PR on version updates, etc which I would like to keep.
In the same repository, I have a GitHub Action for Pull Requests for my team to use.
My issue is that the Dependabot keeps triggering the Pull Request action no matter what I tried.
My PR action have to be triggered on staging branch pull requests, like so:
name: Pull Request
on:
pull_request:
branches:
- staging
So I can't use both on pull_reuqest AND branches_ignore - as stated in the documentation
Workflow attempts I have tried so far that unfortunately haven't worked:
name: Pull Request
on:
pull_request:
branches:
- staging
- '!dependabot/**'
name: Pull Request
on:
pull_request:
branches:
- staging
jobs:
Build:
if: github.actor!= 'dependabot-preview[bot]'
name: Build
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Check out code
uses: actions/checkout@v2
I have also tried excluding the Dependabot user like so:
if: github.actor!= 'depbot'
Would love some insights or answers on how you have dealt with this issue.
Thanks!
I guess there were many changes over the years and you can find outdated ways all over the web. The actual way is documented in the Dependabot documentation
if: ${{ github.actor != 'dependabot[bot]' }}
Note that nowadays you can also check the github.triggering_actor
- if you want workflow to be skipped if Dependabot triggered it, but want to be able to manually trigger it on a PR that was opened by Dependabot.