Git push to heroku

[rickyhopkins]

I am trying to deploy to heroku with github actions using actions/heroku@master. I am not using docker so the standard directions for the heroku action does not really apply to me.

My current flow is:

jobs:
  release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@master
    - name: login
      uses: actions/heroku@master
      env:
        HEROKU_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.HEROKU_API_KEY }}
      with:
        args: container:login
    - name: set remote
      uses: actions/heroku@master
      env:
        HEROKU_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.HEROKU_API_KEY }}
      with:
        args: git:remote -a my-app
    - name: push
      run: git subtree push --prefix server heroku master

It seems to login just fine and it adds the remote but then it fails when I try to push to heroku with the following message:

fatal: could not read Username for 'https://git.heroku.com': No such device or address

Which seems strange because the heroku login command should be adding my credentials to the .netrc file.

[deniscostadsc]

Hi,

@rickyhopkins, I'm having same problem here. Did you work around this in a clever way?

[rickyhopkins]

Hey @deniscostadsc,

Nope, my project does not change too often so I have resorted to a manual deploy until I can get this working.

The only workaround that I found was here which suggests adding the Heroku remote manually with the API key injected in like so:

    - name: Add remote origin
      run: |
        git remote add heroku https://heroku:${{ secrets.HEROKU_API_KEY }}@git.heroku.com/${{ secrets.HEROKU_APP_NAME }}.git
    - name: Deploy to Heroku
      run: |
        git push heroku HEAD:master -f

I did not test this myself but I can't see why it wouldn't work it just feels like a bit of a hack to me.

Hope that helps.

[karimsa]

You don’t need the remote step so for my project, this is the solution I’m using:

  - name: Deploy to production
     run: |
       git push https://heroku:$HEROKU_API_KEY@git.heroku.com/<heroku-project>.git master

[deniscostadsc]

@karimsa,

I tried an approach similar to yours, but I keep getting errors. I even tried to put hardcode URL with secret API key (don't worry I already invalidated it 😎) and got same error bellow:

Run git push ***git.heroku.com/<heroku-project>.git master
  git push ***git.heroku.com/<heroku-project>.git master
  shell: /bin/bash -e {0}
error: src refspec master does not match any
error: failed to push some refs to '***git.heroku.com/<heroku-project>.git'

[karimsa]

Is the branch that ran the workflow master? If not, you can try changing master to HEAD:master in the above command.

[deniscostadsc]

After changing my code to this:

STAGING_GIT_URL=$(git remote get-url staging | sed 's/\/git/\/heroku:${{ secrets.HEROKU_API_KEY }}@git/')
git remote set-url staging $STAGING_GIT_URL
git push staging HEAD:master

I start to get this error:

Run STAGING_GIT_URL=$(git remote get-url staging | sed 's/\/git/\/heroku:***@git/')
  STAGING_GIT_URL=$(git remote get-url staging | sed 's/\/git/\/heroku:***@git/')
  git remote set-url staging $STAGING_GIT_URL
  git push staging HEAD:master
  shell: /bin/bash -e {0}
error: The destination you provided is not a full refname (i.e.,
starting with "refs/"). We tried to guess what you meant by:

- Looking for a ref that matches 'master' on the remote side.
- Checking if the <src> being pushed ('HEAD')
  is a ref in "refs/{heads,tags}/". If so we add a corresponding
  refs/{heads,tags}/ prefix on the remote side.

Neither worked, so we gave up. You must fully qualify the ref.
hint: The <src> part of the refspec is a commit object.
hint: Did you mean to create a new branch by pushing to
hint: 'HEAD:refs/heads/master'?
error: failed to push some refs to '***git.heroku.com/<heroku-project>.git'

I think my error is more related to git that Heroku actually.

Thanx for the help so far.

[deniscostadsc]

Just for the sake of history, my problem seems to be caused by the state of detached of the repo on build. I'm confused why you didn't have this problem.

[deniscostadsc]

Yes, it was the detached state. I used a semi-hacky solution of creating a branch before pushing to github.

[spk]

o/ for other people looking for an example with Heroku git push deploy on pull request with a comment /deploy https://gist.github.com/spk/7be27d8f0f9fa0264fa24417ec40c742 secrets needs to be provided and also the HEROKU_APP_NAME changed

[rohitkrishna094]

@deniscostadsc do you have a sample yaml file for that hacky solution that you mentioned?