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Copy-to-Another-Repository
is reusable workflow to copy selected file to another repository and create Pull Request (PR) to merge.
Create GitHub Actions like as follows. See action.yml for further details.
name: GitHub-Actions-Name
on:
workflow_dispatch: # Allows you to run this workflow manually from the Actions tab
push:
branches: [ main ]
branches-ignore:
tags:
tags-ignore:
paths:
- 'README.md' # limit trigger to the target-filepath.
# It's not elegant to set same value in two options but
# there is no way to retrieve this value in composite action.
jobs:
main:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: sator-imaging/Copy-to-Another-Repository@v1
with:
# required parameters
target-filepath: 'README.md' # file path to copy
output-branch: 'main or master' # branch name to create pull request
output-repo: 'Owner/AnotherRepository'
git-token: ${{ secrets.TOKEN_TO_ACCESS_OUTPUT_REPO }}
# optional parameters and default values
commit-message-prefix: '[actions] ' # followed by source repository and file name
output-directory: "${{ github.event.repository.name }}" # copy file into sub directory
pr-branch-prefix: "actions/${{ github.event.repository.name }}" # branch name prefix followed by date and time
pr-title: "GitHub Actions: ${{ github.event.repository.name }}" # followed by source repository and file name
pr-message: "${{ github.workflow }} on ${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}" # followed by action repository
git-name: "github-actions[bot]" # your name can be set by ${{ github.actor }}
git-email: 'github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com' # associated user icon is shown in commit page
#
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