Git Commit & Push action

GitHub Action to commit & push changes made in workflows

Note: This action is supported on all runners operating systems (ubuntu, macos, windows)

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📚 Usage

⚠️ Requirements

• The actions/checkout is mandatory to use this action, as it will be necessary to access the repository files.

1️⃣ Minimal: Commit and Push with default parameters

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      # [...] --> steps with actions or commands updating repository files
      - uses: GuillaumeFalourd/git-commit-push@v1.3

2️⃣ Full: Commit and Push with customized parameters

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      # [...] --> steps with actions or commands updating repository files
      - uses: GuillaumeFalourd/git-commit-push@v1.3
        with:
          email: ${{ github.actor }}@users.noreply.github.com
          name: ${{ github.actor }}
          commit_message: your_message
          target_branch: target_branch_name
          files: file1 file2 directory1 directory2/file3
          remote_repository: https://github.com/owner/another_repository
          access_token: ${{ github.token }}
          force: true
          empty: true
          tags: true

Known Issue

When pushing to the same repository, the workflow may return the following error using the action:

remote: Permission to <owner>/<repository>.git denied to github-actions[bot].
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/<owner>/<repository>/': The requested URL returned error: 403

This can be resolved by adding persist-credentials: false and fetch-depth: 0 to the workflow configurations when using the actions/checkout.

     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       with:
          persist-credentials: false # otherwise, the token used is the GITHUB_TOKEN, instead of the personal access token.
          fetch-depth: 0  # otherwise, there would be errors pushing refs to the destination repository.
     - uses: GuillaumeFalourd/git-commit-push@v1.3
       with:
          email: ${{ github.actor }}@users.noreply.github.com
          name: ${{ github.actor }}
          commit_message: your_message
          target_branch: target_branch_name
          files: file1 file2 directory1 directory2/file3
          remote_repository: https://github.com/owner/another_repository
          access_token: ${{ github.token }}
          force: true
          empty: true
          tags: true

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▶️ Action Inputs

Field	Mandatory	Default Value	Observation
email	NO	${{ github.actor }}@users.noreply.github.com	Github user email e.g: octocat@github.com
name	NO	${{ github.actor }}	Github username e.g: octocat
commit_message	NO	Commit performed using Push and Commit action	Commit message
target_branch	NO	${{ github.ref }}	Branch to push the changes back
files	NO	.	Files to add separated by space e.g: file1 file2 directory1 directory2/file3
remote_repository	NO	origin	Repository url to push the code
access_token	NO	${{ github.token }}	Personal Access Token is necessary if push to another repository
force	NO	0	Whether to perform force push
empty	NO	0	Whether to allow empty commit
tags	NO	0	Whether to use --tags

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🏅 Licensed

☞ This repository uses the Apache License 2.0