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Re:GitHub Actions limitations and gotchas by fregante on Thursday September 09, 2021 @01:51AM (#28466727)
3.5 I was excited to see action composition until I realized that the composed action will still be showed as one step and that it can just compose actions instead of whole workflows.

I want to share whole jobs across my repos, including matrixes and all. I could wrap some common workflows into one action, but then the whole complexity will be hidden in a single step.

So I resorted to creating GHA Templates and manually synching them with a CLI tool[1], which isn't great, but at least I don't have to copy-paste changes across repos and I can keep a "main version" of the workflow

1: https://github.com/fregante/ghat

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Re:GitHub Actions limitations and gotchas by jeremyepling on Thursday September 09, 2021 @08:20AM (#28468834)
I have some good news. You'll be able to do this with reusable workflows and it's shipping soon. https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/98

If you need to lock down reusable deployment workflows, these features will enable that. https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/249 https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/220

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