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An action never runs on its own: it needs an scmid pointing at an scm declared in the same manifest, and that scm must be of the matching kind. Both are checked when the manifest loads:
missing value for parameter(s) ["scmid"]
scm of kind "git" is not compatible with action of kind "github/pullrequest"The action then reuses that scm rather than being configured twice. From it, it inherits:
| Field | Inherited value |
|---|---|
| The working branch the scm created and pushed - the branch carrying the changes. |
| The scm’s |
| The repository the scm points at. |
credentials, URL | Whatever the scm was given, when the action does not set its own. |
Every one of these can be overridden in the action spec, but there is rarely a good reason to: a mismatch between the branch the scm pushed and the branch the action opens the request from produces a request with no changes in it.
Where the title comes from
The title is resolved from the first of these that is set:
spec.titleon the actiontitleon the action itself, one level abovespecthe name of the associated target, when there is exactly one
the pipeline name
The second form is the usual one:
actions:
default:
kind: <the action kind>
scmid: default
title: 'deps: bump axios version'Create or update
Updatecli looks for a request already open between the same two branches before creating one, so running the same pipeline repeatedly gives you one long-lived request per pipeline and repository rather than one per run. Whether that existing request is then refreshed with the latest title and description differs by plugin (each page says which).
Creation is also skipped, without failing the pipeline, when either branch is missing from the remote. Updatecli attempts it on every run regardless, so that a request closed by hand or lost to an earlier failure gets reopened on the next one.
Pipeline URL
When Updatecli detects that it runs inside a CI job, it appends a link to that job in the request description. Set disablepipelineurl: true on the action (next to kind and scmid, not inside spec) to leave it out.
Detection is limited to three engines, each recognised by one environment variable: Jenkins (JENKINS_URL), GitLab CI (GITLAB_CI), and GitHub Actions (GITHUB_ACTION), checked in that order. Anywhere else no link is added, whatever this setting says.
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