Disabling and enabling a workflow

You can disable and re-enable a workflow using the GitHub UI, the REST API, or GitHub CLI.

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Disabling a workflow allows you to stop a workflow from being triggered without having to delete the file from the repo. You can easily re-enable the workflow again on GitHub.

Temporarily disabling a workflow can be useful in many scenarios. These are a few examples where disabling a workflow might be helpful:

  • A workflow error that produces too many or wrong requests, impacting external services negatively.
  • A workflow that is not critical and is consuming too many minutes on your account.
  • A workflow that sends requests to a service that is down.
  • Workflows on a forked repository that aren't needed (for example, scheduled workflows).

Warnung

Um unnötige Workflowausführungen zu verhindern, werden geplante Workflows möglicherweise automatisch deaktiviert. Wenn ein öffentliches Repository geforkt wird, sind geplante Workflows standardmäßig deaktiviert. In einem öffentlichen Repository werden geplante Workflows automatisch deaktiviert, wenn in 60 Tagen keine Repositoryaktivität aufgetreten ist.

You can also disable and enable a workflow using the REST API. For more information, see REST-API-Endpunkte für Workflows.

Disabling a workflow

  1. Navigieren Sie auf GitHub zur Hauptseite des Repositorys.

  2. Klicke unter dem Namen deines Repositorys auf Aktionen.

    Screenshot: Registerkarten für das Repository „github/docs“. Die Registerkarte „Aktionen“ ist mit einem orangefarbenen Rahmen hervorgehoben.

  3. In the left sidebar, click the workflow you want to disable.

  4. Click to display a dropdown menu and click Disable workflow.

    Screenshot of a workflow. The "Show workflow options" button, shown with a kebab icon, and the "Disable workflow" menu item are outlined in orange.

Hinweis

Weitere Informationen zur GitHub CLI findest du unter Informationen zur GitHub CLI.

To disable a workflow, use the workflow disable subcommand. Replace workflow with either the name, ID, or file name of the workflow you want to disable. For example, "Link Checker", 1234567, or "link-check-test.yml". If you don't specify a workflow, GitHub CLI returns an interactive menu for you to choose a workflow.

gh workflow disable WORKFLOW

Enabling a workflow

You can re-enable a workflow that was previously disabled.

  1. Navigieren Sie auf GitHub zur Hauptseite des Repositorys.

  2. Klicke unter dem Namen deines Repositorys auf Aktionen.

    Screenshot: Registerkarten für das Repository „github/docs“. Die Registerkarte „Aktionen“ ist mit einem orangefarbenen Rahmen hervorgehoben.

  3. In the left sidebar, click the workflow you want to enable.

    Screenshot of the "Actions" page. In the left sidebar, a workflow name is highlighted with an outline in dark orange.

  4. Click Enable workflow.

To enable a workflow, use the workflow enable subcommand. Replace workflow with either the name, ID, or file name of the workflow you want to enable. For example, "Link Checker", 1234567, or "link-check-test.yml". If you don't specify a workflow, GitHub CLI returns an interactive menu for you to choose a workflow.

gh workflow enable WORKFLOW