Action fails above a certain number of commits

[endreymarcell-wise]

I'm running this action on pull requests, right after grabbing the commits themselves using the get-pr-commits action. However, after reaching a certain number of commits (around 30), the action starts failing due to the excessive number of arguments:

Run tim-actions/commit-message-checker-with-regex@v0.3.1
Error: An error occurred trying to start process '/home/runner/runners/2.294.0/externals/node12/bin/node' with working directory '/home/runner/work/my-repo/my-repo'. Argument list too long

I'll be the first to admit that we should have smaller PRs... but at the same time, I'd expect the job not to fail. Maybe we can add an option to read the commit messages from a file rather than stdin?

[gesellix]

We're trying to work around that issue by transforming the get-pr-commits output like this:

      - name: Reduce commit data
        run: >
          echo '${{ steps.get-pr-commits.outputs.commits }}' | jq --monochrome-output --compact-output '[.[] | {"sha": .sha, "commit":{ "message": .commit.message }}]' > filtered-commits.json
      - name: Load filtered commit data in output
        id: 'get-pr-commit-messages'
        run: >
          echo "commit-messages=$(cat filtered-commits.json)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT

[gesellix]

We're now using a combined github action (get-pr-commits + commit-message-checker-with-regex) in the fork at https://github.com/gesellix/commit-message-checker-with-regex.

[sejust]

1、list all commits by page，output to a file. https://github.com/sejust/get-pr-commits
2、load json commits from file. https://github.com/sejust/commit-message-checker-with-regex