GitHub Action for deploying a build to a branch

The purpose of this action is to work alongside build processes that clone a built version of your project from a branch, allowing you to extend your GitHub Action to push the distribution of your application to a seperate branch on the same repo or another repo that you give it access to.

You can use it in your action like this:

name: Build and Push to Serv Content

on:
  push:
    branches: [main]

jobs:
  serv_content:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: Setup Node
        uses: actions/setup-node@v1
        with:
          node-version: 12.x

      - name: Install
        run: npm ci

      - name: Test
        run: npm run test

      - name: Build
        run: npm run build

      - name: Push
        uses: nicholasgriffintn/github-branch-deployment-action@0.0.1
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.DEPLOYMENT_GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          BRANCH: serv_content
          FOLDER: dist
          MESSAGE: 'Build: ({sha}) {msg}'

Here's further explanation on those inputs:

name	value	default	description
GITHUB_TOKEN	string	${{ github.token }}	This is used to allow the action to commmunicate with your repos. You can use the standard workflow token or use a Personal Access Token.
REPO	string	'self'	By default, this will use the same repo that the action is contained within, you can add a different repo url here if you would like to push elsewhere.
BRANCH	string	null	You are required to enter a branch here, this is the branch that the action will push changes to.
FOLDER	string	'.'	This is the folder that should be pushed to your repo and branch, by default, it uses the root folder.
MESSAGE	string	'Build: ({sha}) {msg}'	This is the message that is used for the commit, use {sha} and {msg} to insert the sha and msg of the commit that triggered the build.

Config data

{
  GITHUB_TOKEN: '***',
  CI: 'true',
  GITHUB_WORKFLOW: "Test the action's deployments to a new branch",
  GITHUB_RUN_ID: '1239320120',
  GITHUB_RUN_NUMBER: '3',
  GITHUB_JOB: 'test',
  GITHUB_ACTION: '__self',
  GITHUB_ACTION_PATH: undefined,
  GITHUB_ACTIONS: 'true',
  GITHUB_ACTOR: 'nicholasgriffintn',
  GITHUB_REPOSITORY: 'nicholasgriffintn/github-branch-deployment-action',
  GITHUB_EVENT_NAME: 'push',
  GITHUB_EVENT_PATH: '/home/runner/work/_temp/_github_workflow/event.json',
  GITHUB_WORKSPACE: '/home/runner/work/github-branch-deployment-action/github-branch-deployment-action',
  GITHUB_SHA: '893b0f9ed05157427e0ec22fd117a5ee0377e3f2',
  GITHUB_REF: 'refs/heads/main',
  GITHUB_HEAD_REF: '',
  GITHUB_BASE_REF: '',
  GITHUB_SERVER_URL: 'github.com',
  GITHUB_API_URL: 'api.github.com',
  GITHUB_GRAPHQL_URL: 'api.github.com/graphql',
  RUNNER_OS: 'Linux',
  RUNNER_TEMP: '/home/runner/work/_temp',
  RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE: '/opt/hostedtoolcache',
  TEMP_DIR_NAME: 'github-branch-deployment-action-',
  REPO: 'self',
  BRANCH: 'test',
  FOLDER: 'dist',
  MESSAGE: 'Build: ({sha}) {msg}',
  URL: '***github.com/nicholasgriffintn/github-branch-deployment-action.git'
}