Only works on the master branch

Pushing to non-master branches doesn’t create any issues.

Given that the develop branch is where most of my todo comments live, since they should be resolved by the time they reach master, this seems like a problem.

[GiovanH]

The trick with the BEFORE seems to have done it, thanks!

[weibullguy]

I can confirm that issues can be created when pushing to the develop branch. My partial configuration is below. I split my workflow files up (one for master, one for develop, one for release branches, one for pull-requests), so the reason it works for me may simply be because the action only lives in my develop workflow file. However, it should be these lines that cause the action to refer to the develop branch when looking for TODOs:

with:
  ref: develop

Here’s the full configuration for this action in my develop branch workflow file:

name: Develop Branch Workflow
 
on:
  push:
    branches: develop

  todo_issue:
    name: Create Issues from Todos
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          ref: develop
      - name: TODO to Issue
        id: todo
        uses: alstr/todo-to-issue-action@v2.0
        with:
          REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
          BEFORE: ${{ github.event.before }}
          SHA: ${{ github.sha }}
          TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          LABEL: "#// TODO:"
          COMMENT_MARKER: "#//"
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}