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Changes in GitHub Actions push event payload

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GitHub Actions are triggered by webhook events. The original payload of the event is stored in a file that actions can read at workflow/event.json (see the docs). We’ve made a…

GitHub Actions are triggered by webhook events. The original payload of the event is stored in a file that actions can read at workflow/event.json (see the docs). We’ve made a slight change to the payload for push events in Actions. The following attributes have been removed from the commits section of push payloads for Actions:

  • added
  • removed
  • modified

These diffs can instead be requested using the API https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/commits/#get-a-single-commit.

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