Dynamically Populating Parameters in Manual GitHub Action

Overview

When manually running a GitHub Action with configured choice parameters, it's ideal to have the values dynamically generated and displayed in a drop-down menu. This can be accomplished by creating a GitHub Action that updates the parameters in the YAML file of the main action whenever changes are pushed.

GitHub Action to Update YAML File

Here is a GitHub Action designed to populate the option values:

name: 'Populate option values'

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - 'main'

jobs:
  eslint:
    name: Populate …

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