This is no longer being maintained, a working fork is available here:

https://github.com/guibranco/github-status-action-v2

Marketplace:

https://github.com/marketplace/actions/github-status-action-v2

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GitHub Status Action

Adds a status update to a commit. GitHub will always show the latest state of a context.

Usage

Inputs

• authToken (required)
  Use secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN or your own token if you need to trigger other workflows that use "on: status"'
• state (required)
  The status of the check should only be success, error, failure or pending
• context
  The context, this is displayed as the name of the check
• description
  Short text explaining the status of the check
• owner
  Repostory onwer, defaults to context github.repository_owner if omited
• repository
  Repository, default to context github.repository if omited
• sha
  SHA of commit to update status on, defaults to context github.sha
  If using on: pull_request use github.event.pull_request.head.sha
• target_url
  Url to use for the details link. If omited no link is shown.

Outputs

None.

Example

name: "test"
on: # run on any PRs and main branch changes
pull_request:
push:
  branches:
    - master

jobs:
test: # make sure the action works on a clean machine without building
  runs-on: ubuntu-latest
  steps:
  - uses: actions/checkout@v2
  - name: Run the action # You would run your tests before this using the output to set state/desc
    uses: Sibz/github-status-action@v1
    with: 
      authToken: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}
      context: 'Test run'
      description: 'Passed'
      state: 'success'
      sha: ${{github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha}}