Trigger GitHub Actions Only for a Sub Module in a Multi Module Project-CodePudding

I have a multi module GitHub project which I would like to build using GitHub actions. The action script that I have written is a publish script that triggers when a tag is pushed. I need two things here that should work out, but before here is my project structure:

main-project:
 build.sbt
 module1:
   build.sbt
   src/main/scala/.... 
 module2:
   build.sbt
   src/main/scala/....

I need to have a mechanism check that does the following:

When I push a tag, I will trigger my workflow and I would like that my workflow is only publishing module 1 changes
Is there a way to git tag only module 1?

CodePudding user response：

If you only ever want to publish module1, you can set publish / skip := true in the project settings in build.sbt for other modules and the root project.

CodePudding user response：

If your modules are on different paths within the same Git repository, you could use a path-filter action, as illustrated here.

Note that you cannot tag just a part of a repository, but, if your changes involves only that one module, you can then decide apply a (global) tag with a naming convention reflecting the nature of the change (IE only module1 or only module2).