workflows: fix invalid checkout input in pr-trigger - #235
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The dispatch-triggers job passed `package_version` to actions/checkout, which is not a valid input. GitHub Actions silently ignored it and fell back to the default checkout, emitting an "Unexpected input(s)" warning such as: Warning: Unexpected input(s) 'package_version', valid inputs are ['repository', 'ref', 'token', 'ssh-key', 'ssh-known-hosts', 'ssh-strict', 'ssh-user', 'persist-credentials', 'path', 'clean', 'filter', 'sparse-checkout', 'sparse-checkout-cone-mode', 'fetch-depth', 'fetch-tags', 'show-progress', 'lfs', 'submodules', 'set-safe-directory', 'github-server-url', 'allow-unsafe-pr-checkout'] Use the correct `ref` input to explicitly check out the PR head commit, which clears the warning and makes the intent explicit. This was working anyway, because the default ref is the merge commit (hence containing the correct files), so technically we could remove it completely. Let's keep it, so intent is clear. Also, we are now fetching pull request HEAD instead of the merge commit [1] [1]: https://github.com/actions/checkout#checkout-pull-request-head-commit-instead-of-merge-commit Signed-off-by: Julien Stephan <jstephan@baylibre.com>
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The dispatch-triggers job passed
package_versionto actions/checkout, which is not a valid input. GitHub Actions silently ignored it and fell back to the default checkout, emitting an "Unexpected input(s)" warning such as:Warning: Unexpected input(s) 'package_version', valid inputs are ['repository', 'ref', 'token', 'ssh-key', 'ssh-known-hosts', 'ssh-strict', 'ssh-user', 'persist-credentials', 'path', 'clean', 'filter', 'sparse-checkout', 'sparse-checkout-cone-mode', 'fetch-depth', 'fetch-tags', 'show-progress', 'lfs', 'submodules', 'set-safe-directory', 'github-server-url', 'allow-unsafe-pr-checkout']
Use the correct
refinput to explicitly check out the PR head commit, which clears the warning and makes the intent explicit.This was working anyway, because the default ref is the merge commit (hence containing the correct files), so technically we could remove it completely. Let's keep it, so intent is clear. Also, we are now fetching pull request HEAD instead of the merge commit 1