$default-branch expands to name in double quotes

[abitrolly]

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$default-branch expands to name in double quotes that are invalid in expressions.

[abitrolly]

A workaround is to use fromJSON() to remove quotes.

      if: github.ref == format('refs/heads/{0}', fromJSON('$default-branch'))

[JamesMGreene]

That's an interesting observation, thank you for reporting it!

The hydration of a starter workflow from the templates is something handled within the GitHub backend, so I'll try to get someone to take a further look from that perspective. 🔍

With YAML, it seems to me that we would generally be fine in most cases just omitting the quotes, and leaving such things up to the starter workflow templates themselves to include when necessary. 🤔

[perj]

I just ran into this exact issue. Template expanded to

    if: github.ref_name == '"main"'

which doesn't work.

fromJSON seems to be the easiest workaround.

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[abitrolly]

I believe it is still actual and not fixed.

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