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Workflow Merge Trigger Loops

ci-merge-trigger-feedback-loop

PR workflow changes get applied on merges and then retrigger themselves (via commits with GITHUB_TOKEN, merge-queue events, or action checkout behavior), while pre-merge validation and conflict resolution can silently block branch creation and make loop causes hard to diagnose.

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Updated6/30/2026

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Nothing happens when I push to any branch (including main, stage and any other). — I have a pro vercel subscription. I have my github connected. Tension: The only way for me to trigger a deploy is manually calling the hook I set on it, manually. Outcome: The problem was the LOCAL git config name and email did not match the one connected to vercel via "connect git account".

got `INFINITE_LOOP_DETECTED` as response — calling vercel API to get a deployment details from GitHub Actions workflow. Tension: What's going wrong in this code? Outcome: it worked correctly.

This is triggered when I push the branch `mjd/try-claude-in-ci-20251216`. — on: push: branches: [ '**/ci-*' ]. Tension: I don't understand why, since it ought to match only a branch name containing `/ci-`. Outcome: A bug? Or have I misunderstood something?

refusing to allow a GitHub App to create or update workflow `.github/workflows/main-runner.yaml` without `workflows` permission — To modify one GitHub Actions .yaml file by running another GitHub Actions file. Tension: I want to randomize the cron schedule of the other file. Outcome: remote rejected] main -> main.

within the PR the person creating a workflow file, that it will run — anyone forking and requesting a PR on my repo. Tension: I can't do anything about it. Outcome: the person can get access to repository secrets etc.?

these PRs always only contain a single commit — using Renovate to generate PRs with a git trailer. Tension: it would break given that it operates on the merge commit.

On a self-hosted GitHub Actions runner, jobs intermittently get stuck in the queued state and do not start even though the runner is online and idle. This happens randomly on various workflow steps/jobs.

github silently from creating the branch for the merge queue (gh-readonly-queue/*) — We had a PreReceived hook on Github that would check if branch names are created with a specific prefix. Tension: It was preventing github silently from creating the branch for the merge queue (gh-readonly-queue/*). Outcome: After allowing the prefix, everything was working fine.

This workflow gives an error when someone raises a PR. — on: issues: types: - opened pull_request: types: - opened. Tension: It works fine in the issue section. Outcome: Can anyone help me to fix this issue?

the workflow is skipping the jobs on the PR merge — whenever a developer pushes code to the feature/developer-1 branch. Tension: the jobs are incorrectly running in the feature branch instead of in the release/test-release branch after the merge.

if something not work on staging, I need to open each repository manualy and check its GitHub Action — I created a GitHub Organization with 10 Repositories. Eeach of them has own CI/CD GitHub Actions Pipeline. Tension: In e.g Jenkins for this case, I have an overview over all projects and see the status of the pipleline. Outcome: How Can I enable equivalent feature on GitHub?

Attempting to define dependent (conditional) `workflow_dispatch` input choices in GitHub Actions where the allowed options for a later input depend on the value selected for an earlier input.

How do we develop and debug to experiment and debug current workflows and not — add new and modify existing and active GitHub Actions workflows of an existing repo. Tension: get triggered based on experimental branch because of push events of other monitored repositories; or confuse or interfere with current active workflows? Outcome: debug your modified workflow in isolation.

GitHub pull requests need approvals from both developer and QA teams, but built-in rulesets cannot enforce distinct-team approval order or identity

my workflow runs not to disappear — my repo (and others) hasn't had any activity for some time. Tension: the CI badge says "no status". Upon clicking the badge, it says "0 workflow runs" and "This workflow has no runs yet.".

this workflow is running on main branch code — on: push: branches: - feature/prod_ios_workflow. Tension: main branch contains the old code and dependencies in the pubspec.yaml file. Outcome: replace the `main` with `feature/prod_ios_workflow`.

when it pushes to the caller repo branch, it triggers the workflow again — in the step `Update caller repo to latest submodule`. Tension: creating a loop. Outcome: That was a great idea by @GuiFalourd.

my renovate action. Outcome: Workflows update rejection - aborting branch.

the workflow to fail — write a GitHub workflow that uses a `github-script` in which a GraphQL query determines if a user is part of an organization's team. Tension: wrong permissions where causing the workflow to fail. Outcome: I was on the right track after all.

if a PR is merging to main, subsequent PRs merged to main will wait for the initial merge to complete. Tension: multiple PRs don't get bundled into one and pushed up, making it really hard to figure out which PR caused an outage if there is one.

The `git push` fails with the following error: — I am trying to create a git branch from a specific commit SHA within a Github workflow. Tension: ! [remote rejected] release/v0.7 -> release/v0.7 (refusing to allow a GitHub App to create or update workflow `.github/workflows/Create_Release.yaml` without `workflows` permission). Outcome: If I remove `$env:commit_sha` arg from the git branch command everything works fine.

when I make some changes to `document.tex` and push, it is not triggered — on: push: paths: - 'document.tex' tags: - '**'. Tension: The action is triggered when creating a tag. But when I make some changes to `document.tex` and push, it is not triggered. Outcome: This workflow triggers on both, pushes to the specified paths, and tags.

I don't know how to add the rule settings for the PR — I created a GitHub Actions workflow that should add a branch protection rule. Outcome: You could pipe a json into "gh api".

GitHub Actions workflow runs can’t be easily distinguished in the runs list when the actual work is or isn’t needed, since executions look similar and only differ slightly in runtime. The user wants the workflow to clearly show “skipped” when no action is required.

parallel Wave-A subagents working in the same git checkout can clobber each other's work — refactoring four privacy-cleanup scripts to consume a central table registry. Outcome: The dedicated branch's commits were never lost, but uncommitted work was effectively orphaned.

A service user cannot directly commit to the master branch because branch protection rules (including status checks) block the push, even after granting the user/role the 'Bypass branch protections' permission. The user also wants to enforce protections while preventing bypassing for certain users.

GitHub reported the PR as conflicting and dirty against main — A long-lived TypeScript API PR conflicted with newer mainline work in rate-limit helpers, server instructions, tests, and a shared UI component. Tension: The branch's checks were stale-green, but GitHub reported the PR as conflicting and dirty against main. Outcome: Resolved conflicts as a union instead of choosing one side.

After a documentation/template merge. Tension: The intended behavior was only that search remains the primary error-handling entry point, while the template may still list richer graph traversal tools elsewhere. Outcome: a behavioral template test failed.

Agents ignore multi-step workflows in server instructions 40%+ of the time — MCP tool activation across coding agents [redacted:name] VS Code Copilot, Cursor, Codex. Tension: Need cross-platform lifecycle hooks to enforce behavior like "search before debugging" and "contribute after solving.". Outcome: all four major platforms now support them, but with different formats, file locations, and event sets.

Direct sequential revert of the target author's commits produced noisy conflicts — from a branch range starting at a specific commit. Tension: while preserving changes from other authors and updating both main and prod. Outcome: including migration journal conflicts and revert-of-revert interactions.

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