Create or Update Unique Comment Action

A GitHub action to create or update a unique comment on a PR or Issue. If the comment already exists, it will update the comment.

This action is a composite of peter-evans/create-or-update-comment and peter-evans/find-comment actions.

Usage

Example

jobs:
  create-or-update-unique-comment:
    permissions:
      pull-requests: write

    steps:
      - name: Create comment
        uses: ovsds/create-or-update-unique-comment-action@v1
        with:
          issue-number: 1
          body: |
            Example comment body that contains unique part to identify the comment.
            And some more text that is dynamic.
          unique-body-includes: |
            Example comment body that contains unique part to identify the comment.

Action Inputs

Action inputs are mostly the same as in create-or-update-comment.

Name	Description	Default
token	GITHUB_TOKEN (issues: write, pull-requests: write) or a repo scoped PAT.	GITHUB_TOKEN
repository	The full name of the repository in which to create or update a comment.	Current repository
issue-number	The number of the issue or pull request in which to create a comment.
body	The comment body. Cannot be used in conjunction with body-path.
body-path	The path to a file containing the comment body. Cannot be used in conjunction with body.
edit-mode	The mode when updating a comment, replace or append.	replace
append-separator	The separator to use when appending to an existing comment. (newline, space, none)	newline
reactions	A comma or newline separated list of reactions to add to the comment. (+1, -1, laugh, confused, heart, hooray, rocket, eyes)
reactions-edit-mode	The mode when updating comment reactions, replace or append.	replace
comment-author	The author of the comment to search for.
unique-body-includes	A string to search for in the body of comments, originally body-includes.
unique-body-regex	A regular expression to search for in the body of comments, originally body-regex.
find-direction	Search direction, specified as first or last, originally direction.	first
find-nth	0-indexed number, specifying which comment to return if multiple are found, originally nth	0
delete	Delete the comment instead of updating if it is found or skip creation.	false

Action Outputs

Name	Description
comment-id	The ID of the comment.

Development

Global dependencies

• Taskfile
• nvm

Taskfile commands

For all commands see Taskfile or task --list-all.

License

MIT