How to avoid jobs name nesting with GitHub Actions reusable workflows?

Question

I have a GH workflow with multiple jobs that are executed after each. These jobs are defined in other files.

name: pipeline

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
jobs:
  Init:
    uses: ./.github/workflows/init.yml
    secrets: inherit
    with:
      ...
  Build:
    needs: Init
    uses: ./.github/workflows/build.yml
    secrets: inherit
    with:
      ...

init.yml


on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  workflow_call:
    inputs:
      ...
    outputs:
      ...
jobs:
  Init:
    runs-on: self-hosted
    outputs:
      ...
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3

GitHub displays the job name of the original workflow file and the job name of the reused workflow file nested into each other in the title. I would like to avoid this. In the navigation bar on the left, the nested job name however is not shown.

How can I avoid this name duplication and show only one job name?

I was googling for thins and this seems the only result, i see no answers nor comments, but wondering if you figured it out @Cristopher ? — cjerez
– cjerez, Commented Sep 17, 2023 at 5:01
Unfortunately no, I consider this a bug in GH as it's shown in the sidebar but not the breadcrumb. So fine for me right now and I wait till GH fixes this. — Christopher
– Christopher, Commented Sep 18, 2023 at 6:42

ascott18 · Accepted Answer · 2025-03-07 00:08:34Z

1

There doesn't seem to be a way to do this in Github at the moment. The closes that I could get was naming my job "-" so it wasn't so obtrusive.

jobs:
  build-and-deploy:
    name: '-'
    uses: ./.github/workflows/lambda-build-and-deploy.yml

answered Mar 7 at 0:08

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