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stefanzweifel / git-auto-commit-action

Automatically commit and push changed files back to GitHub with this GitHub Action for the 80% use case.
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Add `create_branch` option to force create a new branch #203

Closed stefanzweifel closed 2 years ago

stefanzweifel commented 2 years ago

This PR is yet another attempt to solve the problem of "what should happen if the given branch does not exist yet". As previous attempts failed and broke the action for all userrs, I've decided to add a new option called create_branch to make this basically an opt-in feature.

By default create_branch is false and using a branch-name that doesn't exist yet, fails the action with "fatal: invalid reference: not-existend-branch".

Setting create_branch to true, we use the -B-option of git-checkout to create a new branch. From there the Action works like before and pushes the commit to the remote branch.

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