Commit and push changes back upstream. Lightweight action using only alpine and shell scripting.

Use v2, GitHub changed the way checkout works so v1 no longer works

Usage

name: publish

on:
  push:
    branches:
    - master
    
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - name: checkout
      uses: actions/checkout@v2
    # make the changes between checkout and push
    - name: push
      uses: actions-x/commit@v2

All parameters are optional, with no parameters provided, these defaults are used:

• name - the actor name, so if your github name is example the name will be example
• email - the actor name @localhost, if your github name is example the email is example@localhost
• message - Automatically updated using GitHub Actions
• branch - defaults to the branch that triggered the action, so if you pushed to master, the branch is master
• files - . (meaning all files in the whole tree)
• repository - you can specify the repository to push the code to, default is origin (e.g. the same repository)
• token - if you want to push to a different repository you need to provide your own token, otherwise you can leave it to the default value which is provided by GitHub Actions and works for the same repository
• force - you can specify true to perform force push, default is to not use force push

Full reference

name: publish

on:
  push:
    branches:
    - master
    
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - name: checkout
      uses: actions/checkout@v2
    # make the changes between checkout and push
    - name: push
      uses: actions-x/commit@v2
      with:
        email: me@example.com
        name: GitHub Actions Autocommitter
        branch: master
        files: file1 file2 directory directory2/file3
        repository: https://github.com/Example/SomeOtherRepository
        token: ${{ secrets.MY_SECRET_TOKEN }}
        force: true