This is a Github Action that will cancel any previous runs that are not completed for a given workflow.

This includes runs with a status of queued or in_progress.

When you git push, this action will capture the Branch and SHA. It will query GitHub's API to find workflow runs that match the Branch but do not match the SHA (these would be previous pushes) and cancel all of these in-progress runs so that the latest run (current SHA) will finish.

Read more about the Workflow Runs API.

Typically, you will want to add this action as the first step in a workflow so it can cancel itself on the next push.

jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Cancel Previous Runs
        uses: styfle/[email protected]
        with:
          access_token: ${{ github.token }}
      #- name: Run Tests
      #  uses: actions/setup-node@v1
      #  run: node test.js
      # ... etc

In some cases, you may wish to avoid modifying all your workflows and instead create a new workflow that cancels your other workflows.

• Visit https://api.github.com/repos/:org/:repo/actions/workflows to find the Workflow ID you wish to auto-cancel.
• Add a new file .github/workflows/cancel.yml with the following:

name: Cancel
on: [push]
jobs:
  cancel:
    name: 'Cancel Previous Runs'
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    timeout-minutes: 3
    steps:
      - uses: styfle/[email protected]
        with:
          workflow_id: 479426
          access_token: ${{ github.token }}

Note: workflow_id accepts a comma separated list of IDs.

At the time of writing 0.4.0 is the latest release but you can select any release.

• Clone this repo
• Run yarn install
• Edit ./src/index.ts
• Run yarn build
• Commit changes including ./dist/index.js bundle