Per the documentation found here, I have tried setting a GitHub Action environment variable but noticed that the env variables don't seem to save. Has this been deprecated or is the documentation / my implementation just incorrect?
- name: Get Gradle VersionName
working-directory : ${{ github.workspace }}/app
run : |
echo "Get Gradle VersionName"
echo "action_state=yellow" >> $GITHUB_ENV
echo "${{ env.action_state }}"
grep 'versionName' build.gradle | awk '{print $2}'
This behaviour is expected since "the step that creates or updates the environment variable does not have access to the new value, but all subsequent steps in a job will have access." (documentation)
To illustrate, consider the following definition of steps:
steps:
- name: Step 1
run: |
echo "action_state=yellow" >> $GITHUB_ENV
echo "State is: '${{ env.action_state }}'" # No output since same step
- name: Step 2
run: |
echo "State is: '${{ env.action_state }}'" # Output works
Which results in this output:
