gitea-gt-cli/references/actions.md

Actions: runs and workflows

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Gitea Actions are first-class in gt. This file covers run (workflow runs) and workflow (definitions and dispatch). Secrets, variables and packages are in ci-config.md; runners are in runners.md. gt <cmd> --help is authoritative.

Run argument: a run ID (34, #34) or a run URL (https://HOST/OWNER/REPO/actions/runs/34). Without one, a terminal asks you to pick a recent run.

JSON fields (run): actor, attempt, branch, commit, completed_at, conclusion, created_at, event, id, jobs, run_number, started_at, status, title, updated_at, url, workflow, workflow_path.

run

gt run <command>
  artifact  cancel  delete  download  jobs  list  logs  rerun  view  watch

run list aliases run ls; run delete aliases run rm; run artifact list aliases run artifact ls.

list

-u/--actor @me, -b/--branch, -c/--commit SHA|rev, -e/--event, -w/--workflow file|name, -s/--status (status or conclusion, repeatable), --since/--until (date, RFC3339, or duration ago; scans up to 5000 runs), -L/--limit, --page.

gt run list
gt run list --workflow CI --branch main --status failure
gt run list --since 24h --json id,status,conclusion,workflow

view / watch

• view [<run-id>] [--log] [--no-jobs] [-w] — run, jobs and steps.
• watch [<run-id>] [-i|--interval 3s] [--timeout 1h] [--expect-head commit] — refresh until done; exits 5 when the run completes without success, 3 when --timeout expires, and 1 when gt itself fails. It keeps polling through an instance outage of up to 5 minutes. With --expect-head, it exits 6 before waiting when the run is for another commit (a SHA, or a revision such as HEAD resolved in the clone), so you never wait on an earlier push.

gt run view 34
gt run view 34 --json jobs --jq '.jobs[] | {name, conclusion}'
gt run watch 34 --timeout 10m && echo deployed
gt run watch 34 --expect-head HEAD

logs

logs [<run-id>] [-j|--job name|ID] [-f|--follow] [--failed] [--tail N] [-i|--interval 5s] [-O|--output file|-] [-D|--dir dir] [--timeout 1h] [--clobber] [--skip-existing]

Prints each job's logs, job names to stderr. --failed selects the jobs that failed or were canceled (the ones gt run rerun --failed reruns); --tail N prints only the last N lines of each job's log. --follow waits for jobs to start and prints new lines. --output/--dir download the whole run's logs as a ZIP.

gt run logs 34
gt run logs 34 --job build --follow
gt run logs 34 --failed --tail 50
gt run logs 34 --output logs.zip

download

download [<run-id>] [-n|--name artifact] [-D|--dir dir] [-O|--output path|-] [--zip] [--clobber] [--skip-existing] — extracts each artifact into a directory named after it; a single --name extracts into the destination itself; --zip keeps archives.

gt run download 34
gt run download 34 --name build --dir dist
gt run download 34 --zip

jobs / artifact list / cancel / rerun / delete

• jobs [<run-id>] [-L n] [--page n] — JSON: completed_at, conclusion, created_at, id, labels, name, run_attempt, started_at, status, steps, url.
• artifact list [<run-id>] — list uploaded artifacts. JSON: created_at, expired, expires_at, id, name, size_in_bytes, updated_at, url.
• cancel [<run-id>] [--force] — keeps the run and logs.
• rerun [<run-id>] [--failed] [-j|--job name|ID] — all jobs, failed only, or one.
• delete [<run-id>] [-y].

gt run jobs 34 --json id,conclusion --jq '.[] | select(.conclusion == "failure") | .id'
gt run rerun 34 --failed

workflow

gt workflow <command>
  disable  enable  list  run  view

workflow list aliases workflow ls.

Workflow argument: file name (ci.yml), name without extension (ci), path (.gitea/workflows/ci.yml), or workflow name (CI).

JSON fields: id, name, path, state, url.

run (dispatch)

gt workflow run <workflow> with -r/--ref branch|tag, -f/--field key=value (repeatable), --follow, --interval 2s, --timeout 30m. Requires a workflow_dispatch trigger. Inputs are validated against the declared inputs: unknown, missing-required, or invalid choice/boolean values are refused. The workflow is looked up in the first of .gitea/workflows and .github/workflows on the ref it runs on. Without --ref, runs on the checked-out branch if it is on the server, else the default branch. With --follow, exits 5 like gt run watch when the run completes without success, and 3 when --timeout expires.

JSON fields: id, url.

gt workflow run CI
gt workflow run ci.yml --ref main -f target=production -f dry_run=false
gt workflow run nightly --follow

view / list / enable / disable

• view <workflow> [-r ref] [--yaml] [-w] — workflow and recent runs.
• list
• enable <workflow>, disable <workflow>

gt workflow view CI
gt workflow view ci.yml --yaml --ref feature/login
gt workflow disable Nightly