Running a step only if the deploy resulted in a new commit (changed files)

[tiagoad]

Hi,

I want to run a few steps, only if the deploy resulted in changes. Is there any way to do this?

Thanks!

[JamesIves]

The action emits deployment in the form of an environment variable that you can use to conditionally move your workflow onto the next step: https://github.com/JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-action#deployment-status

[emmahsax]

Try something like this:

    - name: Deploy Site
      uses: JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-action@releases/v3
      with:
        .
        .
        .

    - name: Continue
      if: ${{ env.DEPLOYMENT_STATUS }} == "success"
      run: echo "Continuing because deploy happened"

[Pike]

v4 is also going to have this result as a step output, which you can also use. If there are a couple of steps, you might be able to pull them into a separate job, and run the job only if the previous one succeeded (aka, not fail nor skipped). That's not on the releases/v4 branch yet, though.