Deploying to ***

[tribakzero]

This may be an issue on how I'm doing things, but I'm not able to deploy to my project and the log says I'm trying to push to *** instead.

Here's the full output:

Run AkhileshNS/heroku-deploy@master
Created and wrote to ~./netrc
Successfully logged into heroku
heroku: Press any key to open up the browser to login or q to exit:  ›   Warning: heroku update available from 7.39.1 to 7.39.2.
Added git remote heroku
remote: 
remote: !	Push rejected, cannot delete master branch        
remote: 
To https://git.heroku.com/***.git
 ! [remote rejected] master (pre-receive hook declined)
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://git.heroku.com/***.git'

            Unable to push branch because the branch is behind the deployed branch. Using --force to deploy branch. 
            (If you want to avoid this, set dontuseforce to 1 in with: of .github/workflows/action.yml. 
            Specifically, the error was: Error: Command failed: git push heroku :refs/heads/master 
remote: 
remote: !	Push rejected, cannot delete master branch        
remote: 
To https://git.heroku.com/***.git
 ! [remote rejected] master (pre-receive hook declined)
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://git.heroku.com/***.git'

Here's my yml file:

# This is a basic workflow to help you get started with Actions

name: CI

# Controls when the action will run. Triggers the workflow on push or pull request
# events but only for the master branch
on:
  push:
    branches: [ master ]
  pull_request:
    branches: [ master ]

# A workflow run is made up of one or more jobs that can run sequentially or in parallel
jobs:
  # This workflow contains a single job called "build"
  build:
    # The type of runner that the job will run on
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    # Steps represent a sequence of tasks that will be executed as part of the job
    steps:
    # Checks-out your repository under $GITHUB_WORKSPACE, so your job can access it
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2

    # Install dependencies
    - name: Install dependencies
      run: yarn install

    # Tests project
    - name: Test project
      run: yarn test

    # Builds project
    - name: Build project
      run: yarn build

    # Deploys to Heroku
    - name: Deploy to Heroku
      uses: AkhileshNS/heroku-deploy@master
      with:
        # This will be used for authentication. You can find it in your heroku homepage account settings
        heroku_api_key: ${{ secrets.HEROKU_API_KEY }}
        # Email that you use with heroku
        heroku_email: ${{ secrets.HEROKU_EMAIL }}
        # The appname to use for deploying/updating
        heroku_app_name: ${{ secrets.HEROKU_APP_NAME }}
        # An optional buildpack to use when creating the heroku application
        buildpack: # optional
        # The branch that you would like to deploy to Heroku
        branch: # optional, default is HEAD
        # Set this to true if you don't want to use --force when switching branches
        dontuseforce: # optional
        # Will deploy using Dockerfile in project root.
        usedocker: # optional
        # Set if your app is located in a subdirectory.
        appdir: # optional, default is   

I added the secrets to my config a couple times already to make sure I wrote the correct values, seems like at least API_KEY is working correctly because the action is able to login.

I don't know what else to try, I tried adding the app name to the yml or adding it as a secret to no avail.
I'm learning Github Actions and I'm frustrated because I can't find a way out of this fairly easy problem.

Do you have an idea on how could I fix this?

[AkhileshNS]

I would get rid of the "buildpack", "branch", "dontuseforce" and "appdir" variables in your action since you aren't using them.

Your yaml file should look something like:

name: CI

on:
  push:
    branches: [ master ]
  pull_request:
    branches: [ master ]

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2

    - name: Install dependencies
      run: yarn install

    - name: Test project
      run: yarn test

    - name: Build project
      run: yarn build

    - name: Deploy to Heroku
      uses: AkhileshNS/heroku-deploy@master
      with:
        heroku_api_key: ${{ secrets.HEROKU_API_KEY }}
        heroku_email: ${{ secrets.HEROKU_EMAIL }}
        heroku_app_name: ${{ secrets.HEROKU_APP_NAME }}

Also in your output *** is just github actions hiding secrets from being printed in the logs. So its likely the *** is actually just the value of secrets.HEROKU_APP_NAME.

Also never leave a value like appdir: in yaml. Always assign it some value like appbir: "./dist" or leave it out. Because otherwise, the value can't get initialized with its default value

[tribakzero]

Thank you for the prompt response, you're great, it was that. Also thanks for helping me understand the *** thing.

I'll keep the rest of your advice in mind, have a great day :)