This github action differs from the original action in the last step. When pushing the commit it is done with --force
. This was to fix an error I was having when running the action when the destination branch existed and had changes.
The error I encountered
error: failed to push some refs to REPO
hint: Updates were rejected because the remote contains work that you do not
hint: have locally. This is usually caused by another repository pushing to
hint: the same ref. If you want to integrate the remote changes, use
hint: 'git pull' before pushing again.
hint: See the 'Note about fast-forwards' in 'git push --help' for details.
This GitHub Action copies a file from the current repository to a location in another repository
name: Push File
on: push
jobs:
copy-file:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: Pushes test file
uses: dmnemec/copy_file_to_another_repo_action@main
env:
API_TOKEN_GITHUB: ${{ secrets.API_TOKEN_GITHUB }}
with:
source_file: |
'test2.md'
'test1.md'
'/copy_folder'
'/copy_files_in_folder/'
destination_repo: 'dmnemec/release-test'
user_email: 'example@email.com'
user_name: 'dmnemec'
commit_message: 'A custom message for the commit'
This section is probably out of date, its best to reference the
action.yml
file directly.
The API_TOKEN_GITHUB
needs to be set in the Secrets
section of your repository options. You can retrieve the API_TOKEN_GITHUB
here (set the repo
permissions).
- source_files: The file or directory to be moved. Uses the same syntax as the
rsync
command. Incude the path for any files not in the repositories root directory. Possible to specify multiple sources by separating them by spaces. - destination_repo: The repository to place the file or directory in.
- user_email: The GitHub user email associated with the API token secret.
- user_name: The GitHub username associated with the API token secret.
- destination_branch: [optional] The branch of the source repo to update, if not "main" branch is used.
- destination_branch_create: [optional] A branch to be created with this commit, defaults to commiting in
destination_branch
- commit_title: [optional] A custom commit title for the commit. Defaults to
Update from ${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}
- commit_description: [optional] A custom commit description for the commit. Defaults to
Update from https://github.com/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}/commit/${GITHUB_SHA}
- use_rsync: [optional] Uses
rsync -avh
instead ofcp -R
to perform the base operation. Currently works as an experimental feature (due to lack of testing) but can speed up updates to large collections of files with many small changes by only syncing the changes and not copying the entire contents again. Please understand your use case before using this, and provide feedback as issues if needed.
The action will create any destination paths if they don't exist. It will also overwrite existing files if they already exist in the locations being copied to. It will not delete the entire destination repository.