It is possible to create repositories within Github with GitHub templates. This is a nice approach to have some boilerplate within your repository. Over the time the template repository will get some code changes. The problem is that the already created repositories won't know about those changes. This GitHub action will help you to keep track of the template changes.
- Sync template repository with the current repository
- Ignore files and folders from syncing using a
.templatesyncignorefile
Add this configuration to your github action
# File: .github/workflows/template-sync.yml
on:
schedule:
- cron: "*/15 * * * *"
jobs:
repo-sync:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
# To use this repository's private action, you must check out the repository
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: actions-template-sync
uses: AndreasAugustin/actions-template-sync@v0.1.3-draft
with:
github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
source_repo_path: <owner/repo>
upstream_branch: <target_branch> # defaults to mainYou will receive a pull request within your repository if there are some changes available.
Create a .templatesyncignore file. Just like writing a .gitignore file, follow the glob pattern in defining the files and folders that should be excluded from syncing with the template repository.
You must create a secret named ACTIONS_STEP_DEBUG with the value true to see the debug messages set by this command in the log. For more information, see "Enabling debug logging."
The development environment targets are located in the Makefile
make helpThanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):
 andy Augustin 📖 |
 Ugo Pattacini 📖 |
This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!