Github Actions

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Only cancel in-progress jobs or runs for the current workflow

concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
  cancel-in-progress: true

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steps:
  - name: Dump GitHub context
    run: echo "$GITHUB_CONTEXT"
    env:
      GITHUB_CONTEXT: ${{ toJSON(github) }}

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Dispatch Event Call

curl -L -X POST https://api.github.com/repos/nntrn/save/dispatches \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN"\
  -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
  -d '{"event_type":"on-greeting","client_payload":{"greeting":"what is up","n":10}}'

# default values to use
env:
  greeting: 'Hello'
  n: 1
on:
  push:
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      n:
        description: Magic number
        type: number
        default: 0
        required: false
      greeting:
        description: A greeting message
        type: string
        default: ''
        required: false
  schedule:
    # UTC time
    - cron: '0 7 * * *'
  repository_dispatch:
    types: [on-greeting]
jobs:
  greet:
    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
    steps:
      - name: Greeting
        run: |
          echo "${{ github.event.inputs.greeting || github.event.client_payload.greeting || env.n }} \
            to you ${{ github.event.inputs.n || github.event.client_payload.n || env.n }} times"

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REST API create issue from commit

name: Create issue on commit
on: [ push ]
jobs:
  create_issue:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      issues: write 
    steps:
      - name: Create issue using REST API
        run: |
          curl --request POST \
          --url https://api.github.com/repos/${{ github.repository }}/issues \
          --header 'authorization: Bearer ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}' \
          --header 'content-type: application/json' \
          --data '{
            "title": "Automated issue for commit: ${{ github.sha }}",
            "body": "This issue was automatically created by the GitHub Action workflow **${{ github.workflow }}**. \n\n The commit hash was: _${{ github.sha }}_."
            }' \
          --fail

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