Create a Pull Request on a separate repository.

[vinibosch]

Hello, do you have any plans to add support for creating Pull Requests on a different repository?

[gr2m]

You can do that already today, you just have to checkout the repository where you want to create the pull request. You can't do that with the provided secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN as it's scoped to only the current repository, I recommend to register a GitHub app with contents:write and pull_requests:write permissions and then use https://github.com/actions/create-github-app-token to create a token and use that token in actions/checkout

[lfgcampos]

hi @gr2m, is there a way to checkout 2 repos but open a PR against a specific one only?

eg:

# default action stuff
...
    steps:
      - name: Checkout repo1
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          path: repo1
      - name: Checkout repo2
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          repository: org/repo2
          token: ${{ secrets.TOKEN_1 }}
          path: repo2

# change files based on repo1 to be commited on repo2
...

      - name: Commit file to repo2 repo
        uses: gr2m/create-or-update-pull-request-action@v1
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.TOKEN_2 }}
        with:
          branch: "auto-repo2-update"
          commit-message: "repo2 auto-update"
          title: repo2 updates
          assignees: ${{ github.actor }}
          auto-merge: squash

I've tried with and without the path: repo2/ and it doesn't work.

The error is (with it):

Error: Command failed with exit code 128 (Unknown system error -128): git status repo2/

Without it:

Error: Command failed with exit code 128 (Unknown system error -128): git status

[gr2m]

I don't know, I'd have to look into it myself. I suggest you fork the repo and experiment to find out