Any way to checkout PR from `issue_comment` event?
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Description
The example in the docs here assumes a pull request event, but it does not work when operating on Pull Request comments, since those come through the issue_comment event.
I've spent several hours on this now and I don't see any way to checkout the branch associated with the issue_event.
Complications:
- The event is the comment and it links to an issue, which only indirectly seems to have data on the pull request url.
- Checking out the associate sha doesn't give push ability, since the branch name itself is not discoverable (at least not as well as I can tell).
- Since
issue_commentevents have to be triggered by the workflow file on the default branch, it seems that is always the branch name provided. I haven't yet found any way to get the actual PR branch, although it seems this should be a straightforward and frequent use case for operating on PR comments.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the linked checkout pull-request documentation and the issue_comment event details described here. Determine whether the action can identify the pull request's head branch and provide push-capable checkout behavior for comments; done means a documented, reliable workflow or a clearly scoped action change.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- git, github-actions, typescript
- Domain
- devops, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100