Solution: GitHub Actions Failing with Unexpected value 'branches'

Starting seeing this today:

The workflow is not valid. .github/workflows/azure-dev.yml (Line: 3, Col: 5): Unexpected value 'branches'

Apparently workflow_dispatch never supported branches, but GH silently ignored it if you included it.

Starting today, they validate it, so your actions will fail.

I’m sure this broke a ton of actions, hopefully they fix it soon.

In the mean-time, remove branches from workflow_dispatch

Before:

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
    branches:

      - main
      - master

  push:
    branches:

      - main
      - master

  pull_request:
    branches:

      - main
      - master

```text

After:

```yaml

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  push:
    branches:

      - main
      - master

  pull_request:
    branches:

      - main
      - master

Discussion happening here: https://github.community/t/worflow-with-dispatch-and-branches-setting-suddenly-not-supported-anymore/247732/30