GitHub Action Timing Out

[souvikinator]

We are experiencing a timeout issue when using git-auto-commit-action@v5 in our GitHub Actions workflow. The action runs indefinitely until it exceeds the time limit. Other steps in the workflow are completed, and only this action appears to be affected.

Suspect is large number of files being committed however I'm not sure what's the expected behaviour.

Current workflow configuration:

- name: Commit changes
  uses: stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action@v5
  with:
    commit_user_name: [redacted]
    commit_user_email: [redacted]
    commit_options: "--signoff"
    commit_message: "New Models generated and updated"
    branch: master

Link to one of the failing runs: https://github.com/meshery/meshery/actions/runs/13253120994/job/36995032146

Any insights or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[stefanzweifel]

Hi there,

According to the workflow run logs, I looks like you're adding/commiting 32481 files (possibly even more, as the job cancelled after 5 hours).

After checking out your repository on my machine and inspecting the size, I assume this is a file number of file size issue.
Your server/meshmodel folder has a size of 2.5 GB.

I suspect git push to github.com fails or times out.

A couple of possible solutions that come to mind:

Increase the buffer size of git.
You would have to add a step that runs these commands before git-auto-commit

git config --global http.postBuffer 524288000  # 500MB
git config --global http.maxRequestBuffer 100M

Batching
Create multiple commis and pushes.

It's maybe easier to do this directly in the workflow run like so.

git add server/meshmodel/foo
git commit -m "First batch"
git push origin master

git add server/meshmodel/bar
git commit -m "Second batch"
git push origin master

Or use multiple steps using git-auto-commit.

      - name: Commit Mesh Models
        uses: stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action@v5
        with:
          commit_user_name: l5io
          commit_user_email: ci@layer5.io
          commit_options: "--signoff"
          commit_message: "New Models generated and updated"
          branch: master
+         file_pattern: 'server/meshmodels'

      - name: Commit the rest
        uses: stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action@v5
        with:
          commit_user_name: l5io
          commit_user_email: ci@layer5.io
          commit_options: "--signoff"
          commit_message: "New Models generated and updated"
          branch: master

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In general, do you have the same issues when running the code locally and trying to push to GitHub?