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29 changes: 26 additions & 3 deletions .github/workflows/push-email-notify.yml
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# PUSH_EMAIL_ENABLED=true (the single on/off switch). Addresses are pre-filled;
# sending needs the org SMTP secrets (SMTP_HOST/PORT/USER/PASS). Inherited by
# new repos from the template; placed on existing repos by the farm sweep.
#
# Re-landed after the 2026-07-20 notification-storm freeze (removed in
# 09f94c5), now on hyperpolymath/smtp-notify-action: Node-free, the SMTP
# session is Idris2-specified and machine-checked, the binary is Zig-built,
# byte-reproducible, and SHA-256-pinned inside the action itself.
name: Push email notification
on:
push: {}
push:
# Branch pushes only: tag and deletion payloads mislabel Branch:/head_commit.
branches: ['**']

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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printf '%s\n' '--- workflow ---'
cat -n .github/workflows/push-email-notify.yml

Repository: hyperpolymath/laminar

Length of output: 3418

🌐 Web query:

GitHub Actions push event branch deletion deleted true head_commit null workflow branches filter

💡 Result:

When a GitHub branch is deleted, GitHub triggers a push event in addition to the delete event [1][2][3]. In this specific push event payload, the property deleted is set to true, and the head_commit object is set to null [3]. This behavior occurs because the push event signals that the reference (the branch) no longer exists, and consequently, there is no longer a head commit associated with that ref [1][3]. Workflow filters in GitHub Actions (such as the branches or branches-ignore keys) operate on the ref that was pushed [4][5]. Because this "deleted" push event is technically a push to the repository, it can trigger workflows configured to run on push events [1][3]. If you wish to prevent your workflows from running when a branch is deleted, you cannot rely on simple branch filtering alone, as the event persists [3]. Common strategies to handle this include: 1. Using an if condition to check the payload: You can add an if expression to your job or step to skip execution when the ref is deleted [3]. if: ${{!github.event.deleted }} 2. Using a dedicated action: Community-maintained actions, such as filter-deleted-branches, exist specifically to stop workflow execution if the push event was triggered by a branch deletion [6]. For monitoring actual deletions specifically, it is generally recommended to use the delete event instead of the push event [4][1][2]. The delete event payload explicitly identifies the branch name via the ref property (e.g., refs/heads/branch-name), whereas push events may require more complex payload parsing [7][2].

Citations:

Exclude branch-deletion events explicitly.

The push event includes branch-deletion payloads, and branches: ['**'] does not exclude them. When github.event.deleted is true, the existing job condition still runs and sends a misleading push email. Add the deletion guard.

-    if: ${{ vars.PUSH_EMAIL_ENABLED == 'true' }}
+    if: ${{ vars.PUSH_EMAIL_ENABLED == 'true' && github.event.deleted == false }}
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In @.github/workflows/push-email-notify.yml at line 15, Update the push
notification job condition in the workflow to require github.event.deleted to be
false, preventing branch-deletion payloads from sending emails while preserving
notifications for normal pushes.

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concurrency:
# Deliberately per-RUN, so no run is ever queued behind another and none is
# ever cancelled. Do NOT "tidy" this into a shared group such as
# ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}. GitHub's workflow-syntax docs:
# "By default, any existing pending job or workflow in the same concurrency
# group will be canceled and the new queued job or workflow will take its
# place." That happens regardless of cancel-in-progress, which governs only
# the RUNNING job. On this workflow it silently loses a notification email,
# with no error anywhere. Every run here reports a DISTINCT commit, so there
# is no redundant work for a concurrency limit to remove.
# The docs also offer `queue: max` (up to 100 pending); not used, because 100
# is still a cap whereas a per-run group needs none.
# Verified with zizmor 1.30.0: deleting this block raises concurrency-limits;
# this form silences it exactly as a shared group would.
group: push-email-${{ github.run_id }}
cancel-in-progress: false
permissions:
actions: read
contents: read
jobs:
notify:
name: Email on push
if: ${{ vars.PUSH_EMAIL_ENABLED == 'true' }}
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
timeout-minutes: 5
steps:
- name: Send push notification email
uses: dawidd6/action-send-mail@0bbdab096651ee93f37ec02383e088183d41ff0b # pinned
uses: hyperpolymath/smtp-notify-action@ede1191ef6ff3ac02c4f4d9efdf837ee517e11d7 # v0.2.0
with:
server_address: ${{ secrets.SMTP_HOST }}
server_port: ${{ secrets.SMTP_PORT }}
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