I am trying to do something very simple: passing a value into a reusable workflow input. I've done this before and it is still working in this very same repo. But whatever new input I add to any workflow, I cannot get any value passed into it.

The reusable workflow has:

on:
  workflow_call:
    inputs:
        branch-to-build:
          # do not use branch as name as it will be master in a scheduled run
          type: string
          description: 'Branch to checkout, build and publish'
          required: false
          default: 'dev'
        tag-to-apply:
          type: string
          description: 'Tag to apply to the images'
          required: false
          default: 'nightly-dev'

jobs:
  tag:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
        with:
          ref: ${{ github.event.inputs.branch-to-build }}

And then the calling workflow has:

jobs:
  nightly-build-dev:
    uses: ./.github/workflows/reusable.yml
    with:
        branch-to-build: 'dev'
        tag-to-apply: 'nightly-dev'
    secrets: inherit

Now when I kick-off the calling workflow via the GitHub UI, the branch-to-build value is always empty instead of 'dev' which is provided (or 'dev' which is also the default).

What am I missing? I must be overlooking something. Using inputs.branch-to-build doesn't help.

Opper

I am trying to do something very simple: passing a value into a reusable workflow input. I've done this before and it is still working in this very same repo. But whatever new input I add to any workflow, I cannot get any value passed into it.

The reusable workflow has:

on:
  workflow_call:
    inputs:
        branch-to-build:
          # do not use branch as name as it will be master in a scheduled run
          type: string
          description: 'Branch to checkout, build and publish'
          required: false
          default: 'dev'
        tag-to-apply:
          type: string
          description: 'Tag to apply to the images'
          required: false
          default: 'nightly-dev'

jobs:
  tag:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
        with:
          ref: ${{ github.event.inputs.branch-to-build }}

And then the calling workflow has:

jobs:
  nightly-build-dev:
    uses: ./.github/workflows/reusable.yml
    with:
        branch-to-build: 'dev'
        tag-to-apply: 'nightly-dev'
    secrets: inherit

Now when I kick-off the calling workflow via the GitHub UI, the branch-to-build value is always empty instead of 'dev' which is provided (or 'dev' which is also the default).

What am I missing? I must be overlooking something. Using inputs.branch-to-build doesn't help.

Opper

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So the day after it just works with input.branch-to-build