How to run job if tag is v*

[mahnunchik]

How to run job if tag is versioned, for example v1.2.3?

[airtower-luna]

You can use an on.push.tags filter in the workflow, probably something similar to this:

on:
  push:
    tags:
      - 'v*'

[mahnunchik]

Thank you,

This solution is for whole workflow. The question is how to make condition by tag for specific job of workflow.

[airtower-luna]

Oh, right! In that case you could try to build an if condition for the job that checks github.event.ref, maybe something like this:

if: startsWith(github.event.ref, 'refs/tags/v')

That’s assuming the job will only be called for push events, otherwise you’d have to check the event type first.

[mahnunchik]

It seems it is solution. Thank you!

I’ve tested with github.ref

There is missing documentation what the ref means https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/context-and-expression-syntax-for-github-actions#github-context

[airtower-luna]

Yeah, that could use a link to something like the Git Internals - Git References chapter of the Git Book. Also if you want to know which refs are available in your local repository try git show-ref.