proposal: auto-retry

[vallyian]

Checklist

• I am using the latest version of this action.
• I have read the latest README and followed the instructions.
• I have read the latest GitHub Actions official documentation and learned the basic spec and concepts.

Describe your proposal

Action fails intermitently due to concurrent updates

Describe the solution you'd like

Action should implement/support an auto retry mechanism e.g. retry: 3

Describe alternatives you've considered

Two consecutive steps for publishing where the second one only runs if the first one fails

Additional context

No response

[peaceiris]

I think the concurrency.group already resolves this instead.

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
    permissions:
      contents: write
    concurrency:
      group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
    steps:

[vallyian]

That is an interesting idea, I wonder if it would work for different repos pushing to a central gh-pages repo, considering the same key

[peaceiris]

The current example workflow on README includes the approach already.
Please try the concurrency.group first.

name: GitHub Pages

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main  # Set a branch name to trigger deployment
  pull_request:

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
    permissions:
      contents: write
    concurrency:
      group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          submodules: true  # Fetch Hugo themes (true OR recursive)
          fetch-depth: 0    # Fetch all history for .GitInfo and .Lastmod

      - name: Setup Hugo
        uses: peaceiris/actions-hugo@v2
        with:
          hugo-version: '0.85.0'

      - name: Build
        run: hugo --minify

      - name: Deploy
        uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v3
        if: ${{ github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' }}
        with:
          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          publish_dir: ./public

[SavitaKhilnani]

@peaceiris, by adding
concurrency:
group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}

does not seem to solve the issue for me.

[dtyau]

+1 to this request.

Concurrency group would be undesirable for my situation. I'm using this action (thank you or this great action btw), to publish test reports and adding concurrency group would force our test workflow to run sequentially against different test targets.

Adding a git commit retry on this specific git local out of sync with remote error would be great.