github Action to push files into another Github repository
License: MIT License
See the extensive documentation in https://cpina.github.io/push-to-another-repository-docs/ (includes examples, FAQ, troubleshooting, etc.).
GitHub repository of the documentation: https://github.com/cpina/push-to-another-repository-docs
I tried to update from a private repo to a public repo. My account has write access to both. The API_TOKEN_GITHUB is added as instructed in the source repo secrets. However, git commit seems to have no access to the destination repo.
Environment: Macbook M1 Pro
Hi, I tried to use this action to push the output directory of the Jekyll builder to another repository.
But the actions failed when this action tried to list the content of the output directory.
Here is the setup:
jobs:
build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
env:
SITE_DIRECTORY: ${{ github.workspace }}/_site
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: Build the jekyll site
run: |
docker run \
-v ${{ github.workspace }}:/srv/jekyll \
-v ${{ env.SITE_DIRECTORY }}:/srv/jekyll/_site \
jekyll/builder:latest \
/bin/bash -c "chmod -R 777 /srv/jekyll && jekyll build --future"
- name: List site directory
run: ls ${{ env.SITE_DIRECTORY }}
- name: Deploy to the github page repo
uses: cpina/github-action-push-to-another-repository@main
env:
API_TOKEN_GITHUB: ${{ secrets.API_TOKEN_GITHUB }}
with:
source-directory: ${{ env.SITE_DIRECTORY }}
destination-github-username: LanKuDot
destination-repository-name: lankudot.github.io
user-email: <email>
target-branch: mainI inserted a step to list the content of the directory, and it did.
> Run ls /home/runner/work/blog-source/blog-source/_site
assets
blog
categories
feed.xml
index.html
posts
robots.txt
sitemap.xml
tags
And the message of the action is:
Cloning into '/tmp/tmp.LfoiJn'...
ls: /home/runner/work/blog-source/blog-source/_site: No such file or directory
[+] Action start
[+] Cloning destination git repository lankudot.github.io
total 16
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Nov 15 03:08 .
drwxrwxrwt 1 root root 4096 Nov 15 03:08 ..
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Nov 15 03:08 .git
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52 Nov 15 03:08 README.md
[+] List contents of /home/runner/work/blog-source/blog-source/_site
Did I missed something? Thanks!
Error: Unable to resolve action `cpina/github-action-push-to-another-repository@master`, unable to find version `master`
This message appears in my github actions, before everything was totally until now.
What have done bro ???
Is there an option to tags with auto-increment value?
I use your action for more than two months to push my static assets and until now everything is working as expected.
https://github.com/letssteam/pxt-lets-steam/actions/runs/1729730996/workflow#L35
Since yesterday morning, I had an issue with parameters expansion.
When my action generates the files, the target_folder become just 1 :
https://github.com/letssteam/pxt-lets-steam/runs/4899231832?check_suite_focus=true#step:8:238
The commit message becomes just 0 :
https://github.com/letssteam/pxt-lets-steam/runs/4899231832?check_suite_focus=true#step:8:351
Tested the action against one of my own repos (dmnemec) and it worked fine. Switched the destination repo to the actual target (an enterprise repo) and it received the following error
error: src refspec master does not match any
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://***@github.com/enterprise/repo.git'
I haven't dug through the code, but could this be related to the token being generated from my account but the account name and email in the action no longer being mine, but the enterprise account name instead? If so, would this require a PR to split those vars up (optionally)?
Hello!
I'm getting an error when attempting to run the action.
I'm trying to push the contents of the folder public in my repository manuelemacchia/website into my other repository manuelemacchia/manuelemacchia.github.io.
manuelemacchia/website contains the source code of a Hugo website. The folder public contains the ready-to-publish site, which I want to publish using GitHub pages. To do so, I need to copy the contents of public into manuelemacchia/manuelemacchia.github.io.
However, when I push to manuelemacchia/website to trigger the action, I get the following error: cp: can't stat 'public/.': No such file or directory.
Here's the full logs:
2021-03-28T14:25:08.0528043Z ##[section]Starting: Request a runner to run this job
2021-03-28T14:25:08.2456611Z Can't find any online and idle self-hosted runner in current repository that matches the required labels: 'ubuntu-latest'
2021-03-28T14:25:08.2456728Z Can't find any online and idle self-hosted runner in current repository's account/organization that matches the required labels: 'ubuntu-latest'
2021-03-28T14:25:08.2456949Z Found online and idle hosted runner in current repository's account/organization that matches the required labels: 'ubuntu-latest'
2021-03-28T14:25:08.3828128Z ##[section]Finishing: Request a runner to run this job
2021-03-28T14:25:15.7252548Z Current runner version: '2.277.1'
2021-03-28T14:25:15.7274544Z ##[group]Operating System
2021-03-28T14:25:15.7275362Z Ubuntu
2021-03-28T14:25:15.7275781Z 20.04.2
2021-03-28T14:25:15.7276174Z LTS
2021-03-28T14:25:15.7276532Z ##[endgroup]
2021-03-28T14:25:15.7277008Z ##[group]Virtual Environment
2021-03-28T14:25:15.7277516Z Environment: ubuntu-20.04
2021-03-28T14:25:15.7278016Z Version: 20210318.0
2021-03-28T14:25:15.7278802Z Included Software: https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/blob/ubuntu20/20210318.0/images/linux/Ubuntu2004-README.md
2021-03-28T14:25:15.7279903Z Image Release: https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/releases/tag/ubuntu20%2F20210318.0
2021-03-28T14:25:15.7280788Z ##[endgroup]
2021-03-28T14:25:15.7283937Z ##[group]GITHUB_TOKEN Permissions
2021-03-28T14:25:15.7286022Z Actions: write
2021-03-28T14:25:15.7286420Z Checks: write
2021-03-28T14:25:15.7286844Z Contents: write
2021-03-28T14:25:15.7287253Z Deployments: write
2021-03-28T14:25:15.7287779Z Issues: write
2021-03-28T14:25:15.7288513Z Metadata: read
2021-03-28T14:25:15.7289048Z OrganizationPackages: write
2021-03-28T14:25:15.7289544Z Packages: write
2021-03-28T14:25:15.7290040Z PullRequests: write
2021-03-28T14:25:15.7290546Z RepositoryProjects: write
2021-03-28T14:25:15.7291532Z SecurityEvents: write
2021-03-28T14:25:15.7291962Z Statuses: write
2021-03-28T14:25:15.7292528Z ##[endgroup]
2021-03-28T14:25:15.7295263Z Prepare workflow directory
2021-03-28T14:25:15.7840222Z Prepare all required actions
2021-03-28T14:25:15.7849595Z Getting action download info
2021-03-28T14:25:16.1682404Z Download action repository 'cpina/github-action-push-to-another-repository@master'
2021-03-28T14:25:18.3400165Z ##[group]Build container for action use: '/home/runner/work/_actions/cpina/github-action-push-to-another-repository/master/Dockerfile'.
2021-03-28T14:25:18.3470260Z ##[command]/usr/bin/docker build -t 5588e4:16a2b368ac7a4e9797059f7150f5fd2e -f "/home/runner/work/_actions/cpina/github-action-push-to-another-repository/master/Dockerfile" "/home/runner/work/_actions/cpina/github-action-push-to-another-repository/master"
2021-03-28T14:25:19.2250546Z Sending build context to Docker daemon 12.29kB
2021-03-28T14:25:19.2261830Z
2021-03-28T14:25:19.2262483Z Step 1/4 : FROM alpine:3.12
2021-03-28T14:25:20.5350221Z 3.12: Pulling from library/alpine
2021-03-28T14:25:20.9012023Z 22599d3e9e25: Pulling fs layer
2021-03-28T14:25:21.2997336Z 22599d3e9e25: Verifying Checksum
2021-03-28T14:25:21.3012088Z 22599d3e9e25: Download complete
2021-03-28T14:25:21.4286799Z 22599d3e9e25: Pull complete
2021-03-28T14:25:21.4348944Z Digest: sha256:d1eaae2a6814b4b10a722fa75e8a6b53db42d1bf531395a107fea0458bfbf1d8
2021-03-28T14:25:21.4377334Z Status: Downloaded newer image for alpine:3.12
2021-03-28T14:25:21.4387523Z ---> 42cb162f0360
2021-03-28T14:25:21.4388537Z Step 2/4 : RUN apk add --no-cache git
2021-03-28T14:25:21.6153012Z ---> Running in d7cc411b8351
2021-03-28T14:25:22.0120482Z fetch http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.12/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
2021-03-28T14:25:22.0684407Z fetch http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.12/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
2021-03-28T14:25:22.1695602Z (1/6) Installing ca-certificates (20191127-r4)
2021-03-28T14:25:22.1903830Z (2/6) Installing nghttp2-libs (1.41.0-r0)
2021-03-28T14:25:22.1981923Z (3/6) Installing libcurl (7.69.1-r3)
2021-03-28T14:25:22.2105114Z (4/6) Installing expat (2.2.9-r1)
2021-03-28T14:25:22.2173323Z (5/6) Installing pcre2 (10.35-r0)
2021-03-28T14:25:22.2305499Z (6/6) Installing git (2.26.3-r0)
2021-03-28T14:25:22.3843844Z Executing busybox-1.31.1-r19.trigger
2021-03-28T14:25:22.3876177Z Executing ca-certificates-20191127-r4.trigger
2021-03-28T14:25:22.4127669Z OK: 22 MiB in 20 packages
2021-03-28T14:25:23.2116495Z Removing intermediate container d7cc411b8351
2021-03-28T14:25:23.2117318Z ---> 8c54f30c2d23
2021-03-28T14:25:23.2117807Z Step 3/4 : COPY entrypoint.sh /entrypoint.sh
2021-03-28T14:25:24.0082829Z ---> e17e4025f585
2021-03-28T14:25:24.0083401Z Step 4/4 : ENTRYPOINT ["/entrypoint.sh"]
2021-03-28T14:25:24.0252945Z ---> Running in b3ad1d627156
2021-03-28T14:25:25.0092155Z Removing intermediate container b3ad1d627156
2021-03-28T14:25:25.0164054Z ---> 3a0e2ed762da
2021-03-28T14:25:25.0164610Z Successfully built 3a0e2ed762da
2021-03-28T14:25:25.0165229Z Successfully tagged 5588e4:16a2b368ac7a4e9797059f7150f5fd2e
2021-03-28T14:25:25.0177616Z ##[endgroup]
2021-03-28T14:25:25.0459702Z ##[group]Run cpina/github-action-push-to-another-repository@master
2021-03-28T14:25:25.0460599Z with:
2021-03-28T14:25:25.0460970Z source-directory: public
2021-03-28T14:25:25.0461589Z destination-github-username: manuelemacchia
2021-03-28T14:25:25.0462373Z destination-repository-name: manuelemacchia.github.io
2021-03-28T14:25:25.0463047Z target-branch: main
2021-03-28T14:25:25.0463481Z user-email: [email protected]
2021-03-28T14:25:25.0464057Z commit-message: Update from ORIGIN_COMMIT
2021-03-28T14:25:25.0464444Z env:
2021-03-28T14:25:25.0465532Z API_TOKEN_GITHUB: ***
2021-03-28T14:25:25.0465947Z ##[endgroup]
2021-03-28T14:25:25.0519807Z ##[command]/usr/bin/docker run --name e416a2b368ac7a4e9797059f7150f5fd2e_a1e812 --label 5588e4 --workdir /github/workspace --rm -e API_TOKEN_GITHUB -e INPUT_SOURCE-DIRECTORY -e INPUT_DESTINATION-GITHUB-USERNAME -e INPUT_DESTINATION-REPOSITORY-NAME -e INPUT_TARGET-BRANCH -e INPUT_USER-EMAIL -e INPUT_DESTINATION-REPOSITORY-USERNAME -e INPUT_COMMIT-MESSAGE -e HOME -e GITHUB_JOB -e GITHUB_REF -e GITHUB_SHA -e GITHUB_REPOSITORY -e GITHUB_REPOSITORY_OWNER -e GITHUB_RUN_ID -e GITHUB_RUN_NUMBER -e GITHUB_RETENTION_DAYS -e GITHUB_ACTOR -e GITHUB_WORKFLOW -e GITHUB_HEAD_REF -e GITHUB_BASE_REF -e GITHUB_EVENT_NAME -e GITHUB_SERVER_URL -e GITHUB_API_URL -e GITHUB_GRAPHQL_URL -e GITHUB_WORKSPACE -e GITHUB_ACTION -e GITHUB_EVENT_PATH -e GITHUB_ACTION_REPOSITORY -e GITHUB_ACTION_REF -e GITHUB_PATH -e GITHUB_ENV -e RUNNER_OS -e RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE -e RUNNER_TEMP -e RUNNER_WORKSPACE -e ACTIONS_RUNTIME_URL -e ACTIONS_RUNTIME_TOKEN -e ACTIONS_CACHE_URL -e GITHUB_ACTIONS=true -e CI=true -v "/var/run/docker.sock":"/var/run/docker.sock" -v "/home/runner/work/_temp/_github_home":"/github/home" -v "/home/runner/work/_temp/_github_workflow":"/github/workflow" -v "/home/runner/work/_temp/_runner_file_commands":"/github/file_commands" -v "/home/runner/work/website/website":"/github/workspace" 5588e4:16a2b368ac7a4e9797059f7150f5fd2e "public" "manuelemacchia" "manuelemacchia.github.io" "[email protected]" "" "main" "Update from ORIGIN_COMMIT"
2021-03-28T14:25:25.3645154Z Starts
2021-03-28T14:25:25.3658672Z Cloning destination git repository
2021-03-28T14:25:25.3702459Z Cloning into '/tmp/tmp.icaKLD'...
2021-03-28T14:25:25.8142179Z total 88
2021-03-28T14:25:25.8143076Z drwx------ 9 root root 4096 Mar 28 14:25 .
2021-03-28T14:25:25.8143580Z drwxrwxrwt 1 root root 4096 Mar 28 14:25 ..
2021-03-28T14:25:25.8144164Z drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Mar 28 14:25 .git
2021-03-28T14:25:25.8144794Z -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 871 Mar 28 14:25 404.html
2021-03-28T14:25:25.8145412Z -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18 Mar 28 14:25 CNAME
2021-03-28T14:25:25.8146040Z -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26 Mar 28 14:25 README.md
2021-03-28T14:25:25.8146703Z drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 28 14:25 categories
2021-03-28T14:25:25.8147383Z drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 28 14:25 fonts
2021-03-28T14:25:25.8147985Z drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 28 14:25 icons
2021-03-28T14:25:25.8148686Z -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1368 Mar 28 14:25 index.html
2021-03-28T14:25:25.8149294Z -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 532 Mar 28 14:25 index.xml
2021-03-28T14:25:25.8149988Z -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27662 Mar 28 14:25 profile.jpg
2021-03-28T14:25:25.8150605Z drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 28 14:25 resume
2021-03-28T14:25:25.8151240Z drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 28 14:25 scss
2021-03-28T14:25:25.8151831Z -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 411 Mar 28 14:25 sitemap.xml
2021-03-28T14:25:25.8152682Z drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 28 14:25 tags
2021-03-28T14:25:25.8160579Z Copying contents to git repo
2021-03-28T14:25:25.8165665Z cp: can't stat 'public/.': No such file or directory
2021-03-28T14:25:25.9555298Z Cleaning up orphan processes
This is the .yml file:
name: publish-site
on:
push:
branches: [ main ]
pull_request:
branches: [ main ]
jobs:
publish:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Push directory to another repository
uses: cpina/github-action-push-to-another-repository@master
env:
API_TOKEN_GITHUB: ${{ secrets.API_TOKEN_GITHUB }}
with:
source-directory: 'public'
destination-github-username: 'manuelemacchia'
destination-repository-name: 'manuelemacchia.github.io'
target-branch: main
user-email: [email protected]
Is there something I'm doing wrong?
Hello I try to use this action but I think there a issue when I try to use the arg target-directory, can you help to undestand why I having this issue.
My pipeline is:
`name: Push File
on: push
jobs:
copy-file:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v2
- run: |
chmod +x ./build.sh
./build.sh
- name: Push directory to another repository
uses: cpina/[email protected]
env:
API_TOKEN_GITHUB: ${{ secrets.API_TOKEN_GITHUB }}
with:
source-directory: 'output'
destination-github-username: 'rafaeltovargarrido'
destination-repository-name: 'restaurant'
user-email: [email protected]
commit-message: See ORIGIN_COMMIT from $GITHUB_REF
target-branch: master
target-directory: tr-rafa/hola`
I want to create this folder tr-rafa/hola in the other repo with context of the folder output.
Error I have when I run the action.
copy-file Unexpected input(s) 'target-directory', valid inputs are ['entryPoint', 'args', 'source-directory', 'destination-github-username', 'destination-repository-name', 'user-email', 'destination-repository-username', 'target-branch', 'commit-message']
hello Cpina! Just like the question says, sometimes i want to add some content to the git commit, maybe like this:
- name: Pushes to another repository
uses: cpina/github-action-push-to-another-repository@master
env:
API_TOKEN_GITHUB: ${{ secrets.API_TOKEN_GITHUB }}
with:
source-directory: 'output'
destination-github-username: 'cpina'
destination-repository-name: 'push-to-another-repository-output'
user-email: [email protected]
commit-content: 'an example'
Is it possible to add this?
Thanks !
Hey @cpina, the release is not working as expected.
Here It's created a target directory called 1 I tried to pass the input target-directory: './' but got the same issue
First of all, I think this is a great extension! We use it in the build pipeline at @QuantEcon projects.
My question is, since GitHub has switched over to main as the new default branch, is it possible to add some sort of switching logic? (i.e., check if main and master exist... use if only one exists, choose a default if both exist?)
For example, this is the alias I set up to purge non-master branches from a repo. I think something like this could work:
alias gbr='git branch | grep -v master | xargs git branch -D'
(Maintainer here)
Before adding more features and merging PRs (unless they fix an error) I want to write tests for the github action (should have been done long time ago).
Testing the action is getting harder and harder as we add features and I really want to avoid regressions.
I might have some time towards end of February 2022 but if anyone wants to have a look at writing tests it might speed up PR and issues.
I haven't planed yet how to implement the tests. If someone wants to help it might be a good idea to discuss options here.
Thanks for using it and for your patience!
No matter what I do, this doesnt seem to follow Symbolic links at all..
I have tried over and over to find out why it wouldnt change to Directory always said no such directory..
dir is a Symbolic link, but this doesnt see it.....
Thank you for this plugin. Generating and pushing one file deletes all the other files. Is that expected behavior? Here is the code I'm using
Hi,
thank you for amazing package. It's doing so much work for me ๐
I have a use case, when I push master branch.
I also need to push current tag.
In Travis, it was possible to do something like this:
- if [ "${TRAVIS_TAG}" != "" ]; then git tag "${TRAVIS_TAG}" && git push --quiet origin ${TRAVIS_TAG}; fiWould something like this be possible here too?
Thank you
After ab68811, I'm now getting
Error: API_TOKEN_GITHUB and SSH_DEPLOY_KEY are empty. Please fill one (recommended the SSH_DEPLOY_KEY
on all my runs, despite API_TOKEN_GITHUB being set in the workflow:
uses: cpina/github-action-push-to-another-repository@main
env:
API_TOKEN_GITHUB: ${{ secrets.API_TOKEN_GITHUB }}
with:
(and yes, the secret is set.)
This worked prior to the update, so it's definitely not a config issue on my end.
It's this check which is failing for whatever reason.
(Also, even if that check worked, the command you're setting there to be run doesn't actually have the token in. You probably want to split the "redacted for display" and "actually used" strings into two different variables.)
Hi there and thanks for creating this action.
I realized that (maybe for a while, maybe since a recent change) deleted files aren't included in the commit to the dest. repository. It looks like this has something to do with the new TARGET_DIRECTORY, if none is set, it wont remove the content from the root. And cp will just add new files.
I didn't really want to touch the TARGET_DIRECTORY logic, but solved it with rsync.
Maybe this is just us and our workflow, but if you get more issues like this, here is a fork
https://github.com/spiribo/github-action-push-to-another-repository
Cheers,
Levin
This is available in https://github.com/sebastian-palma/github-action-push-to-another-repository. Can we add it to this repo to consolidate the functionality?
Hi,
in a case when there are no changes vs remove branch, the job will fail.
https://github.com/rectorphp/rector/runs/1355898228
How shall I avoid it?
Thank you
If we want the file to go in a specific directory in the destination repo, is there a way to specify that? If so, will it create the directory if the directory is missing?
Hi, your action seems like it is doing exactly what I would need, but I can't use it because it won't work with GHES as github.com is the hardcoded server url. It would be great to consider this, similar to the checkout action.
How can I push the whole repository files to another repository ?
If I put an empty string it throws an error :
`
A functionality to ignore some folders and files might be really useful.
I recently tried using this action to copy the whole repo to another repo in order to host it.
.git folder was also copied in the copy step resulting in the action trying to push back to source repo and fails.
just like:
finnal-push ๏ผ[keep source | keep source and target but overwrite if name exsit | keep source and target but keep others if name exist |]
The user-name argument is supposed to be the equivalent of setting git config user.name when using this action. Typically, this will be the real name of the person performing a commit, with name, surname and all.
For example, in my case it usually is "Gabriele Ara".
However, it is later used as a github username when cloning the destination repository, which is incorrect.
Apparently, the destination-gtihub-username should be used instead.
Example (from one of my repositories):
- name: Deploy on Personal Website
uses: cpina/github-action-push-to-another-repository@main
env:
API_TOKEN_GITHUB: '${{ secrets.API_TOKEN_GITHUB }}'
with:
# other non relevant options ...
destination-github-username: 'gabrieleara'
destination-github-repository: 'gabrieleara.github.io'
user-name: 'Gabriele Ara'
github-server: 'github.com'
destination-repository-username: 'gabrieleara'The above snippet failed with the following error in my case:
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/gabrieleara/gabrieleara.github.io.git/': URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL
Error: Could not clone the destination repository. Command:
Error: git clone --single-branch --branch main https://Gabriele Ara:[email protected]/gabrieleara/gabrieleara.github.io.git /tmp/tmp.gaKCCN
Error: (Note that the USER_NAME and API_TOKEN is redacted by GitHub)
Error: Please verify that the target repository exist AND that it contains the destination branch name, and is accesible by the API_TOKEN_GITHUB
where it is clearly visible that the value of the user-name attribute is used instead of the destination-github-username one.
I ran into that problem with my fork - when the $TARGET_BRANCH doesn't exist, cloning fails. Just wanted to give you a head's up in case it's useful.
Origin
Output (from dest repo)
The sub directory not being pushed. Am I the only one having this issue?
I tried to upload the files as my personal report, but I saw this error.
remote: error: File ๋นจ๋ ค๋ค์ด๊ฐ ๊ฑฐ ๊ฐ์ (๋ง์ธํฌ๋ํํธ) [GQYfmvrdySc].mkv is 165.31 MB; this exceeds GitHub's file size limit of 100.00 MB
remote: error: GH001: Large files detected. You may want to try Git Large File Storage - https://git-lfs.github.com.
To https://github.com/rophin/DownloadResult.git
! [remote rejected] main -> main (pre-receive hook declined)
error: failed to push some refs to '***github.com/rophin/DownloadResult.git'
So I looked up the document to see if Git LFS was also possible to commit, but I couldn't find it. That's why I want you to support the Git LFS commit.
Recently I added support for ssh deploy keys.
The documentation could be improved with screenshots, better writing of the steps.
I plan to do it in the future but if anyone would like to step in please get in touch in this issue and we can discuss an approach / structure.
Hey would it be possible to make
- name: Push to the repository which will create the staticfiles pod into the cluster
uses: cpina/github-action-push-to-another-repository@master
env:
API_TOKEN_GITHUB: ${{ secrets.REPO_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
with:
source-directory: 'staticfiles_pod'
destination-github-username: 'xxxx'
destination-repository-name: 'staticfiles'
user-email: [email protected]
commit-message: "new front static files"
commit-message: "#patch new front static files generated ${GITHUB_REF##*/}"
Thanks for the action, it's very useful!
The problem is that files such as .eslintrc.json, .prettierignore and .prettierrc.json are ignored and not copied to the repository.
They are also not mentioned in the terminal:
Cloning destination git repository
total 52
drwx------ 6 root root 4096 Mar 23 20:43 .
drwxrwxrwt 1 root root 4096 Mar 23 20:43 ..
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Mar 23 20:43 .git
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 945 Mar 23 20:43 .gitignore
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 23 20:43 .gitkeep
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1077 Mar 23 20:43 LICENSE
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1588 Mar 23 20:43 README.md
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Mar 23 20:43 content
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2882 Mar 23 20:43 gatsby-config.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 466 Mar 23 20:43 gatsby-node.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56 Mar 23 20:43 netlify.toml
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1011 Mar 23 20:43 package.json
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Mar 23 20:43 src
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 23 20:43 static
only files related to the git are not ignored (which also have a dot).
I use this action in open source, so if it somehow helps, here's the repository where it is used: https://github.com/Chronoblog/gatsby-theme-chronoblog
My repo is public but gives to me this error:
/usr/bin/docker run --name d5371714bb4b94[16](https://github.com/Squirrel-Network/GoBotApiGenerator/runs/6626431174?check_suite_focus=true#step:9:17)08106041dc82200fd_8ab128 --label 08450d --workdir /github/workspace --rm -e VERSION -e API_TOKEN_GITHUB -e INPUT_COMMIT-MESSAGE -e INPUT_SOURCE-DIRECTORY -e INPUT_DESTINATION-GITHUB-USERNAME -e INPUT_USER-NAME -e INPUT_DESTINATION-REPOSITORY-NAME -e INPUT_USER-EMAIL -e INPUT_TARGET-BRANCH -e INPUT_SOURCE-BEFORE-DIRECTORY -e INPUT_GITHUB-SERVER -e INPUT_DESTINATION-REPOSITORY-USERNAME -e INPUT_TARGET-DIRECTORY -e HOME -e GITHUB_JOB -e GITHUB_REF -e GITHUB_SHA -e GITHUB_REPOSITORY -e GITHUB_REPOSITORY_OWNER -e GITHUB_RUN_ID -e GITHUB_RUN_NUMBER -e GITHUB_RETENTION_DAYS -e GITHUB_RUN_ATTEMPT -e GITHUB_ACTOR -e GITHUB_WORKFLOW -e GITHUB_HEAD_REF -e GITHUB_BASE_REF -e GITHUB_EVENT_NAME -e GITHUB_SERVER_URL -e GITHUB_API_URL -e GITHUB_GRAPHQL_URL -e GITHUB_REF_NAME -e GITHUB_REF_PROTECTED -e GITHUB_REF_TYPE -e GITHUB_WORKSPACE -e GITHUB_ACTION -e GITHUB_EVENT_PATH -e GITHUB_ACTION_REPOSITORY -e GITHUB_ACTION_REF -e GITHUB_PATH -e GITHUB_ENV -e GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY -e RUNNER_OS -e RUNNER_ARCH -e RUNNER_NAME -e RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE -e RUNNER_TEMP -e RUNNER_WORKSPACE -e ACTIONS_RUNTIME_URL -e ACTIONS_RUNTIME_TOKEN -e ACTIONS_CACHE_URL -e GITHUB_ACTIONS=true -e CI=true -v "/var/run/docker.sock":"/var/run/docker.sock" -v "/home/runner/work/_temp/_github_home":"/github/home" -v "/home/runner/work/_temp/_github_workflow":"/github/workflow" -v "/home/runner/work/_temp/_runner_file_commands":"/github/file_commands" -v "/home/runner/work/GoBotApiGenerator/GoBotApiGenerator":"/github/workspace" 08450d:537[17](https://github.com/Squirrel-Network/GoBotApiGenerator/runs/6626431174?check_suite_focus=true#step:9:18)14bb4b941608106041dc82[20](https://github.com/Squirrel-Network/GoBotApiGenerator/runs/6626431174?check_suite_focus=true#step:9:21)0fd "" "./gobotapi" "Squirrel-Network" "gobotapi" "github.com" "<>" "Laky-64" "" "master" "Update to v 1.0.1" ""
[+] Action start
[+] Git version
git version 2.36.1
[+] Cloning destination git repository gobotapi
Cloning into '/tmp/tmp.bMBmfD'...
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/Squirrel-Network/gobotapi.git/': URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL
Error: Could not clone the destination repository. Command:
Error: git clone --single-branch --branch master ***github.com/Squirrel-Network/gobotapi.git /tmp/tmp.bMBmfD
Error: (Note that USER_NAME and API_TOKEN is redacted by GitHub)
Error: Please verify that the target repository exist AND that it contains the destination branch name, and is accesible by the API_TOKEN_GITHUB
My yaml:
- name: Update Compiled GoBotAPI
uses: cpina/github-action-push-to-another-repository@main
env:
API_TOKEN_GITHUB: "${{ secrets.API_TOKEN_GITHUB }}"
with:
commit-message: "Update to v 1.1.2"
source-directory: './gobotapi'
destination-github-username: 'Squirrel-Network'
user-name: 'Laky-64'
destination-repository-name: 'gobotapi'
user-email: <>
target-branch: masterHi,
For our workflow we generate a number of artifacts based on our main repository branch and are pushing those artifacts to a separate repo. How does this workflow handle files that might be removed? Will those still be available in the git history of the target repo or is the entire history overwritten?
Thanks
Hi
No matter what I do, I'm constantly seeing this in logs:
[+] Adding git commit
[+] git status:
On branch master
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.
nothing to commit, working tree clean
[+] git diff-index:
[+] Pushing git commit
Everything up-to-date
Branch 'master' set up to track remote branch 'master' from
The job sees source and target directories correctly but even after merging a PR to master, it can't track new changes. Can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.
Hi I just noticed and read in the readme that the target folder is cleared. Why can't I just push the changes..rather than clearing the target
I see that this action and several actions like it rely on using Personal Access Tokens for write permissions. I don't like to use PATs because (as far as I know) they can't be scoped to a single repo. If they allow write access to one repo, they allow write access to all of your (and all of the organizations you belong to's) repos.
I'm looking to have some kind of authentication that just allows writing from one repo to another single public repo. It seems like GitHub deploy keys would be the way to accomplish this.
This action seems to do just that:
https://github.com/leigholiver/commit-with-deploy-key
But it's not widely used/tested.
Your action seems to be the defacto standard for this type of thing, so an option for this would be nice.
Hi,
I'm encountering an error when running this action to push to another repo:
fatal: unsafe repository ('/tmp/tmp.PklpEM' is owned by someone else)
To add an exception for this directory, call:
git config --global --add safe.directory /tmp/tmp.PklpEM
Looks like this is related to this.
I have tried already setting the ownership of the containing folder in a previous step in my job but no luck yet.
Is there any workaround?
Thanks in advance
I tried to run your action on macOS machine but got error:
Error: Container action is only supported on Linux
Can you add support for macOS
Our actions started failing recently with the following error:
fatal: unsafe repository ('/tmp/tmp.ekmOIH' is owned by someone else)
To add an exception for this directory, call:
git config --global --add safe.directory /tmp/tmp.ekmOIH
This is a related issue that I found with the checkout action. It appears some have worked around this issue by adding a step before the action:
- name: work around permission issue
run: git config --global --add safe.directory /tmp/tmp.ekmOIH
However, with this action, it looks like the tmp that gets created has a different id each time the action is run. So, I'm not sure how we could work around the issue. Any help or guidance on this would be great. Thanks!
It serves very well what I need.
I ran several tests on my personal account, with success.
However, when trying to use Git Action on an organization account, I get an error.
[+] Pushing git commit
remote: Invalid username or password.
fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://github.com/open-geodata/open-geodata.github.io.git/'
Already tried:
Interestingly, if I try to push my organization repository, from a command line, using https, login and api, the push works!!
... that is, there is no problem with the credentials!... but the Git Action still doesn't work!
git add .
git commit -m "Test"
git push https://michelmetran:[email protected]/open-geodata/open-geodata.github.io.git
Is there any way around the problem?
It's related to this line:
Because the directory .github starts with .git it's skipped. Same for file .gitattributes.
I tried grep -v "^$CLONE_DIR/\.git$" but that didn't work.
could I push to another branch other than master?
my git hub private URL is not getting replaced can some one help me.
my organization URL is not getting replaced it is printing has github.com
The current workflow will automatically wipe all contents if no target-directory is mentioned. I'd like to request for a feature which allows some files to stay.
Something like ignore-files: "./README.md"
Thank you
Would be nice if this action provide an option to specify destination folder on target repository
Hey! Thanks for this project.
Perhaps I don't understand something, but I get an error:
cp: can't stat 'examples/chronoblog-netlify-cms/.': No such file or directory
when launching an action.
Here is the complete code of the yml file:
name: Publication of Starters
on: push
jobs:
copy-file:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Push directory to another repository
uses: cpina/[email protected]
env:
API_TOKEN_GITHUB: ${{ secrets.API_TOKEN_GITHUB }}
with:
source-directory: "examples/chronoblog-netlify-cms"
destination-github-username: "Chronoblog"
destination-repository-name: "gatsby-starter-chronoblog-netlify-cms"
user-email: [email protected]
- name: Test get variable exported by push-to-another-repository
run: echo $DESTINATION_CLONED_DIRECTORY
Yes, this is an open source project, here is the entire mono repository from which I'm trying to copy some of the files: https://github.com/Chronoblog/gatsby-theme-chronoblog/tree/test-workflows
And this is the repository where I'm trying to copy the "examples/chronoblog-netlify-cms" folder: https://github.com/Chronoblog/gatsby-starter-chronoblog-netlify-cms
Maybe the problem is that I'm using the name of the organization? (Chronoblog)
Hello,
The github action is failing me at the last step. Cloning, and commiting worked fine but I get the following error at the last step.
How can I help ?
Hi there!
##[warning]Unexpected input 'git-user-email', valid inputs are ['entryPoint', 'args', 'source-directory', 'destination-github-username', 'destination-repository-name', 'user-email']
Your example says I should use git-user-email, but correct is user-email
github has changed its branch structure policy to favor 'main' as the default branch name.
In the action, unless 'target-branch' is forced to 'main', the default is still master.
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