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Repo Manager via Github Actions

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Description

Manage your Github repo(s) settings and secrets using Github Actions and a yaml file

Usage

This action manages your repo from a yaml file. You can manage:

  • branch protection
  • labels
  • repos
  • secrets
  • repo settings
  • Files

See examples/settings.yml for an example config file. The schemas for this file are in repo_manager.schemas.

File Management -- Experimental

File management can copy files from your local environment to a target repo, copy files from one location to another in the target repo, move files in the target repo, and delete files in the target repo.

File operations are performed using the Github BLOB API and your PAT. Each file operation is a separate commit.

This feature is helpful to keep workflows or settings file in sync from a central repo to many repos.

Example workflow

name: Run Repo Manager
on: [workflow_dispatch]
jobs:
  repo-manager:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
    name: Checkout
    - name: Run RepoManager
      uses: andrewthetechie/gha-repo-manager@main
      with:
        # Apply your settings to the repo, can also be check to just check repo settings vs your file or validate, to validate your
        # file is valid
        action: apply
        settings_file: .github/settings.yml
        # need a PAT that can edit repo settings
        token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_PAT }}

Inputs

parameter description required default
action What action to take with this action. One of validate, check, or apply. Validate will validate your settings file, but not touch your repo. Check will check your repo with your settings file and output a report of any drift. Apply will apply the settings in your settings file to your repo false check
settings_file What yaml file to use as your settings. This is local to runner running this action. false .github/settings.yml
repo What repo to perform this action on. Default is self, as in the repo this action is running in false self
github_server_url Set a custom github server url for github api operations. Useful if you're running on GHE. Will try to autodiscover from env.GITHUB_SERVER_URL if left at default false none
token What github token to use with this action. true

Outputs

parameter description
result Result of the action
diff Diff of this action, dumped to a json string

Runs

This action is a docker action.

Contributors

Please see our Contribution Guide for more info on how you can contribute. All contributors and participants in this repo must follow our Code of Conduct.

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