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Note on the use of square brackets in GitHub Actions workflows filter patterns
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What article on docs.github.com is affected?
Following paragraphs:
on.<pull_request|pull_request_target>.<branches|branches-ignore>
The branches and branches-ignore keywords accept glob patterns that use characters like *, **, +, ?, ! and others to match more than one branch name. If a name contains any of these characters and you want a literal match, you need to escape each of these special characters with . For more information about glob patterns, see the "Filter pattern cheat sheet."
The characters *, [, and ! are special characters in YAML. If you start a pattern with *, [, or !, you must enclose the pattern in quotes.
What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?
As in the case with three special characters at the beginning of a pattern, if you use [ and/or ] in a flow sequence, you must enclose them in quotes. Since there must be quite a few people who make such a statement, I think it would be a good idea to write a warning.
- Flow Sequences in the YAML specification
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