Flag to stop the branch deletion when branches match (mostly for gh-pages) about create-pull-request HOT 2 CLOSED

Hi @pauliver

If you want to create a pull request that will be merged into the gh-pages branch then that branch is the base, not branch. My understanding of your use case is to keep the gh-pages branch up-to-date with master by raising PRs when there are changes. If that is the case, please try the following instead.

  create_pr_if_success:
    name: Create PR to gh-pages if everything works
    needs: [process_images, build_jekyll_site]
    runs-on: [ubuntu-latest]
    strategy:
      matrix:
        dotnet: [ '3.1.100' ]
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          ref: ${{env.GHPages}}
      - name: Reset GitHub Pages branch
        run: |
          git fetch origin master:master
          git reset --hard master
      - name: Create Pull Request
        uses: peter-evans/[email protected] #https://github.com/marketplace/actions/create-pull-request
        with:
          branch: github-pages-promotion
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          commit-message: "tests all passed, creating PR for ${{env.GHPages}}"
          labels: ${{env.AutoMergeLabel}}

The workflow first checks out the gh-pages branch, because this is the base of the pull request. It then resets the branch to match master. If there are changes, the action will raise a PR to update the gh-pages branch. The pull request branch is called github-pages-promotion. When the PR is merged or closed, the github-pages-promotion branch can be deleted without affecting gh-pages or master.

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@pauliver Closing this issue for now. Please let me know if it doesn't solve your problem.

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