Restarting GitHub action from CLI

GitHub Actions is still pretty new and missing a lot of functionality. One of such missing features was the ability to interact with Actions from the command line.

gh is the CLI for GitHub and for GitHub Actions.

With the latest gh release (1.8.1 at the time of writing), developers added gh rerun support. While this feature is not yet in documentation, and not all runs can be restarted(I’m receiving the error its workflow file may be broken), it’s already a great productivity booster for me. Here’s how I use it:

# Find out required run <id>
$> gh run list

# Rerun failed pipeline
$> gh run rerun <id>
✓ Requested rerun of run <id>