Get the current pushed tag in Github Actions

Question

Is there a way to access the current tag that has been pushed in a Github Action? In CircleCI you can access this value with the $CIRCLE_TAG variable.

My Wor

Answer 1

Here's a workflow run showing that the GITHUB_REF environment variable contains refs/tags/v0.0.2:

I ran that by creating the tag, then doing git push origin v0.0.2.

Here's a snippet of the workflow you see in that log:

steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v1
- name: Dump GitHub context
  env:
    GITHUB_CONTEXT: ${{ toJson(github) }}
  run: echo "$GITHUB_CONTEXT"
  if: runner.os != 'Windows'
- name: Show GitHub ref
  run: echo "$GITHUB_REF"
  if: runner.os != 'Windows'
- name: Dump event JSON
  env:
    EVENT_JSON_FILENAME: ${{ github.event_path }}
  run: cat "$EVENT_JSON_FILENAME"
  if: runner.os != 'Windows'

Since the log has been deleted, here's a screenshot for evidence: