Can we specify which branch to push to?

[RowlandOti]

Hey, I'd like to specify which branch to push to, so I can avoid pushing to a protected branch. I have a branch that is protected i.e main and release for releases. Is there a way I can commit the ChangeLog to release and push?

Right now it seems to fail with the following error:

github.GithubException.GithubException: 409 {"message": "Could not update file: At least 1 approving review is required by reviewers with write access.", "documentation_url": "https://docs.github.com/articles/about-protected-branches"}

which makes me feel like it by default trying to push to the main branch, despite action or workflow being triggered by push/merge to release - which is not protected. I have my config as below:

name: Release
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - release

       - name: Generate CHANGELOG.md
        id: generate_change_log
        uses: BobAnkh/auto-generate-changelog@master
        with:
          REPO_NAME: 'RowlandOti/E-CommerceApp-Merchant'
          ACCESS_TOKEN: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}
          PATH: '/CHANGELOG.md'
          COMMIT_MESSAGE: 'docs(CHANGELOG): update release notes'
          TYPE: 'ci:Continuous Integration,test:Tests,feat:New Features,fix:Bug Fixes,lint:Code Style Fixes,docs:Documentation,refactor:Refactors,perf:Performance Improvements'

Please note that I do not want to change secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN to include administrators as that defeats the purpose of the branch protection.

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[RowlandOti]

Figured out I could use: PATH: 'release:/CHANGELOG.md'

[BobAnkh]

I will update the README so that users can find this feature more easily. Thank you anyway.

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