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GitHub Actions Cookbook

You're reading from  GitHub Actions Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835468944
Pages 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Michael Kaufmann Michael Kaufmann
Profile icon Michael Kaufmann

Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Preface 1. Chapter 1: GitHub Actions Workflows 2. Chapter 2: Authoring and Debugging Workflows 3. Chapter 3: Building GitHub Actions 4. Chapter 4: The Workflow Runtime 5. Chapter 5: Automate Tasks in GitHub with GitHub Actions 6. Chapter 6: Build and Validate Your Code 7. Chapter 7: Release Your Software with GitHub Actions 8. Index 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Enabling debug logging

In the previous recipe, we saw that you can rerun failed jobs or all jobs with debug logging enabled. However, you can also enable or disable debug logging on a repository base.

How to do it…

We can enable or disable debug logging by adding a variable called ACTIONS_STEP_DEBUG to our repository and setting the value to true or false. This will add a very verbose output to our workflow logs and all debug messages, and this will be displayed from all actions.

You can configure the variable using the web, the GitHub CLI, or VS Code. To set the variable using the web, in the repository, navigate to Settings | Secrets and variables | Actions and pick the Variables tab (/settings/variables/actions). Click New repository variable (which will redirect you to /settings/variables/actions/new), enter ACTIONS_STEP_DEBUG as the name, true as the value, and click Add variable.

To set it using the CLI, just execute the following line:

$ gh variable set...
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