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: ${{ secrets.API_TOKEN_GITHUB }}
with:
source_file: 'test2.md'
destination_repo: 'dmnemec/release-test'
destination_folder: 'test-dir'
user_email: 'example@email.com'
user_name: 'dmnemec'
commit_message: 'A custom message for the commit'
The API_TOKEN_GITHUB
needs to be set in the Secrets
section of your repository options. You can retrieve the API_TOKEN_GITHUB
here (set the repo
permissions).
rsync
command. Incude the path for any files not in the repositories root directory.destination_branch
Update from https://github.com/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}/commit/${GITHUB_SHA}
rsync -avh
instead of cp -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.