[GH-ISSUE #156] Auto-detected event might be confusing #100

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opened 2026-03-01 21:40:07 +03:00 by kerem · 0 comments

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Originally created by @aidansteele on GitHub (Mar 15, 2020).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/nektos/act/issues/156

This is the current logic for determining which event name to run:

github.com/nektos/act@f5e67f2b86/cmd/root.go (L112-L120)

This confused me at first as I installed act, then ran act in my terminal and it ran an unexpected workflow - I have a few different ones. I expected it to run the workflow(s) I have defined for the push event as per these docs:

github.com/nektos/act@f5e67f2b86/README.md (L50-L51)

Maybe we could update the logic to instead:

Use args[0] if present; or
Use push event if any workflows are defined for it; or
Use first available event name discovered

What do you think? ~~Happy to submit a PR if you're fine with this.~~ I went ahead and submitted #157 if you're fine with this.

Originally created by @aidansteele on GitHub (Mar 15, 2020). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/nektos/act/issues/156 This is the current logic for determining which event name to run: https://github.com/nektos/act/blob/f5e67f2b86e2f9f6290f8e1d506455885673576a/cmd/root.go#L112-L120 This confused me at first as I installed `act`, then ran `act` in my terminal and it ran an unexpected workflow - I have a few different ones. I expected it to run the workflow(s) I have defined for the `push` event as per these docs: https://github.com/nektos/act/blob/f5e67f2b86e2f9f6290f8e1d506455885673576a/README.md#L50-L51 Maybe we could update the logic to instead: * Use `args[0]` if present; or * Use `push` event if any workflows are defined for it; or * Use first available event name discovered What do you think? ~Happy to submit a PR if you're fine with this.~ I went ahead and submitted #157 if you're fine with this.

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[PR #103] [MERGED] fix #100 - change RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE to /opt/hostedtoolcache #1353

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