Consecutive Workflow Action

Make workflow runs run consecutively.

Create a comment here and delete it immediately and then go to the Actions tab to see how the second workflow run waits for the previous one.

Usage

jobs:
  consecutiveness:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: mktcode/consecutive-workflow-action@v1 # please read security note
      with:
        token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

  # your other jobs
  something:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: [ consecutiveness ]
    steps:
    # ...

Security Note:

The token is needed to avoid rate limitation issues when performing API calls. I was thinking about making that optional but decided to just make you aware of the security risk and how to avoid it.

Please read this section in the docs before using some random action that asks for your secrets.

There is a v1 branch and tag for this action and you can simply decide to trust me. I recommend using a commit hash instead though.

- uses: mktcode/consecutive-workflow-action@0b779df0b7f31f656194b3aa004cc29dd406393b

Review the repo at this commit.

Alternatives

I also found these actions, which might better suit your needs:

• https://github.com/lewagon/wait-on-check-action
• https://github.com/fountainhead/action-wait-for-check

Their purpose is slightly different. You can wait for certain checks to pass and therefore you can specify a certain ref and you can wait for runs of different workflows.

My action does only one thing: It forces runs of the same workflow to run in consecutive order.

I needed this because I let my workflows push to the repo a lot, which fails when one run pushes in between checkout and push in another run.