github-action-push-to-another-repository

Inspiration and majority of the code came from https://github.com/cpina/github-action-push-to-another-repository/. Customized it to be more suitable for going around the limit of 1 Cloudflare pages connection to a repository. You can use this action to push test/staging/development branch in a production repository to a test/staging/development repository and connect cloudflare pages.

There are different variables to setup the behaviour:

Inputs

destination-github-username (argument)

For the repository https://github.com/codekuu/github-action-push-to-another-repository is codekuu.

destination-repository-name (argument)

For the repository https://github.com/codekuu/github-action-push-to-another-repository is github-action-push-to-another-repository

Warning: this Github Action currently deletes all the files and directories in the destination repository. The idea is to copy from an output directory into the destination-repository-name having a copy without any previous files there.

user-email (argument)

The email that will be used for the commit in the destination-repository-name.

user-name (argument) [optional]

The name that will be used for the commit in the destination-repository-name. If not specified, the destination-github-username will be used instead.

destination-repository-username (argument) [optional]

The Username/Organization for the destination repository, if different from destination-github-username. For the repository https://github.com/codekuu/github-action-push-to-another-repository is codekuu.

target-branch (argument) [optional]

The branch name for the destination repository. It defaults to main.

commit-message (argument) [optional]

The commit message to be used in the output repository. Optional and defaults to "Update from $REPOSITORY_URL@commit".

The string ORIGIN_COMMIT is replaced by $REPOSITORY_URL@commit.

target-directory (argument) [optional]

The directory to wipe and replace in the target repository. Defaults to wiping the entire repository

API_TOKEN_GITHUB (environment)

E.g.: API_TOKEN_GITHUB: ${{ secrets.API_TOKEN_GITHUB }}

Generate your personal token following the steps:

• Go to the Github Settings (on the right hand side on the profile picture)
• On the left hand side pane click on "Developer Settings"
• Click on "Personal Access Tokens" (also available at https://github.com/settings/tokens)
• Generate a new token, choose "Repo". Copy the token.

Then make the token available to the Github Action following the steps:

• Go to the Github page for the repository that you push from, click on "Settings"
• On the left hand side pane click on "Secrets"
• Click on "Add a new secret" and name it "API_TOKEN_GITHUB"

Example usage

      - name: Pushes to another repository
        uses: codekuu/github-action-push-to-another-repository@main
        env:
          API_TOKEN_GITHUB: ${{ secrets.API_TOKEN_GITHUB }}
        with:
          destination-github-username: 'codekuu'
          destination-repository-name: 'pandoc-test-output'
          user-email: carles3@pina.cat
          target-branch: main