Related to https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/32562 Resolve https://gitea.com/gitea/act_runner/issues/102 To support using actions and workflows from private repositories, we need to enable act_runner to clone private repositories. ~~But it is not easy to know if a repository is private and whether a token is required when cloning. In this PR, I added a new option `RetryToken`. By default, token is empty. When cloning a repo returns an `authentication required` error, `act_runner` will try to clone the repo again using `RetryToken` as the token.~~ In this PR, I added a new `getGitCloneToken` function. This function returns `GITEA_TOKEN` for cloning remote actions or remote reusable workflows when the cloneURL is from the same Gitea instance that the runner is registered to. Otherwise, it returns an empty string as token for cloning public repos from other instances (such as GitHub). Thanks @ChristopherHX for https://gitea.com/gitea/act/pulls/123#issuecomment-1046171 and https://gitea.com/gitea/act/pulls/123#issuecomment-1046285. Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/act/pulls/123 Reviewed-by: ChristopherHX <christopherhx@noreply.gitea.com> Reviewed-by: Lunny Xiao <xiaolunwen@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Zettat123 <zettat123@gmail.com> Co-committed-by: Zettat123 <zettat123@gmail.com>
Forking rules
This is a custom fork of nektos/act, for the purpose of serving act_runner.
It cannot be used as command line tool anymore, but only as a library.
It's a soft fork, which means that it will tracking the latest release of nektos/act.
Branches:
main
: default branch, contains custom changes, based on the latest release(not the latest of the master branch) of nektos/act.nektos/master
: mirror for the master branch of nektos/act.
Tags:
nektos/vX.Y.Z
: mirror forvX.Y.Z
of nektos/act.vX.YZ.*
: based onnektos/vX.Y.Z
, contains custom changes.- Examples:
nektos/v0.2.23
->v0.223.*
nektos/v0.3.1
->v0.301.*
, notv0.31.*
nektos/v0.10.1
->v0.1001.*
, notv0.101.*
nektos/v0.3.100
-> not, I don't think it's really going to happen, if it does, we can find a way to handle it.v0.3100.*
- Examples:
Overview

"Think globally,
act
locally"
Run your GitHub Actions locally! Why would you want to do this? Two reasons:
- Fast Feedback - Rather than having to commit/push every time you want to test out the changes you are making to your
.github/workflows/
files (or for any changes to embedded GitHub actions), you can useact
to run the actions locally. The environment variables and filesystem are all configured to match what GitHub provides. - Local Task Runner - I love make. However, I also hate repeating myself. With
act
, you can use the GitHub Actions defined in your.github/workflows/
to replace yourMakefile
!
How Does It Work?
When you run act
it reads in your GitHub Actions from .github/workflows/
and determines the set of actions that need to be run. It uses the Docker API to either pull or build the necessary images, as defined in your workflow files and finally determines the execution path based on the dependencies that were defined. Once it has the execution path, it then uses the Docker API to run containers for each action based on the images prepared earlier. The environment variables and filesystem are all configured to match what GitHub provides.
Let's see it in action with a sample repo!
Act User Guide
Please look at the act user guide for more documentation.
Support
Need help? Ask on Gitter!
Contributing
Want to contribute to act? Awesome! Check out the contributing guidelines to get involved.
Manually building from source
- Install Go tools 1.20+ - (https://golang.org/doc/install)
- Clone this repo
git clone git@github.com:nektos/act.git
- Run unit tests with
make test
- Build and install:
make install