'Can I use a GitHub Action to patch pull requests before running validating actions?
When a collaborator creates/updates a pull request against my repository's default branch I want two things to happen in a specific order:
- Automatic code formatting + commit formatting changes to the PR branch
- Run code quality tests and unit tests
If tests complete without errors the default branch's branch protection rules should allow merging.
The problem is that when step 1 completes, the current workflows are now invalid since there is a new commit on the PR branch. Because of this, the results of the tests can not validate the PR, rendering the PR impossible to merge.
Step no. 1 does not trigger another round of Actions since it was committed and pushed by an Action itself and that behavior would just create an endless loop of Actions anyways.
What I want is a way to run step no. 1 automatically before anything else happens so that simple warnings get squashed without developers having to do anything manually.
I am trying to avoid doing this through pre-commit hooks since that would require developers to manually set up their environments the same way.
How can I create the flow I am describing by using GitHub Actions?
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