GitHub Action that waits for successful commit statuses and checks.

This actions main goal is to wait until all statuses and checks are successful or any of them has failed and set its status output accordingly.

This action supports the following options.

List of actions to ignore the status from, mainly to exclude the action this action is used in preventing it from waiting forever. Actions are specified by the name of the job.

• Required: Yes
• Type: CSV
• Example: Automerge PRs,Other Action but a single action is also perfectly valid Automerge PRs Note that these names are the human readable names use as status on commits, and show up as status checks on PRs.

The amount of seconds to wait between checks, adjust depending on the expected time all the checks and related CI's will take.

• Required: No
• Type: Integer
• Default: 10
• Example: 60 for longer running jobs, or 5 for very short jobs.

If true, this option will first wait for at least one check to be added to a commit. This is useful for external CIs that take some time to calculate which jobs need to be completed.

• Required: No
• Type: true or ""
• Default: ""
• Example: true

This action has only one output and that's the status output. It has two possible values:

• success when all statuses and checks have a successful outcome.
• failure when any status or check has failed, even though other checks might still be running.
• error when an error occurs, log output will include the response body.
• rate_limited when the API calls this action makes are rate limited.

As shown in the example below the status output can be used to skip any follow up steps in the action if conditions aren't met.

Note, that this action always has exit code 0 unless something fails, that's because it's indifferent about your state of your statuses and checks and leave what to do up to you.

The following example is taken from the PHP package wyrihaximus/fake-php-version where any PR with the automerge label will be automatically merged using pascalgn/automerge-action. The output of an action can be seen here. But in order to ensure we don't merge a failing PR we use this action to ensure everything is green before merging it. If anything fails we won't merge the PR and wait for the next update and try again.

name: Auto Merge
on:
  pull_request:
    types:
      - labeled
      - unlabeled
      - synchronize
      - opened
      - edited
      - ready_for_review
      - reopened
      - unlocked
  pull_request_review:
    types:
      - submitted
  status: {}
jobs:
  automerge:
    name: Automerge PRs
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: 'Wait for status checks'
        id: waitforstatuschecks
        uses: "WyriHaximus/github-action-wait-for-status@v2"
        with:
          ignoreActions: "Automerge PRs" ## Note that these names are the human readable names use as status on commits, and show up as status checks on PRs.
          checkInterval: 13
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
      - name: 'Merge'
        uses: "pascalgn/automerge-action@v0.4.0"
        if: steps.waitforstatuschecks.outputs.status == 'success'
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
          LABELS: automerge

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