GHA Initialize Pull Request

JavaScript wrapper for octokit.pulls.create with provided GitHub Actions Inputs

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Table of Contents

• ⬆️ Top of ReadMe File

• 🏗️ Requirements

• ⚡ Quick Start

• 🗒 Notes

• 📇 Attribution

• ⚖️ License

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Requirements

Access to GitHub Actions if using on GitHub, or manually assigning environment variables prior to running npm test.

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Quick Start

Reference the code of this repository within your own workflow...

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - src-pages

jobs:
  jekyll_build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Checkout source branch for building Pages
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          ref: src-pages
          fetch-depth: 10

      - name: Make build destination directory
        run: mkdir -vp ~/www/repository-name

      - name: Jekyll Build
        uses: gha-utilities/jekyll-build@v0.0.4
        with:
          jekyll_github_token: ${{ secrets.JEKYLL_GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          source: ./
          destination: ~/www/repository-name

      - name: Checkout branch for Pull Requesting to GitHub Pages
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          ref: pr-pages
          fetch-depth: 1
          submodules: true

      - name: Copy built site files into Git branch
        run: cp -r ~/www/repository-name ./

      - name: Add changes to Git tracking
        run: git add -A .

      - name: Commit changes
        run: |
          git config --local user.email "action@github.com"
          git config --local user.name "GitHub Action"
          git commit -m 'Updates compiled site files'

      - name: Push changes
        uses: ad-m/github-push-action@master
        with:
          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          branch: pr-pages

      - name: Initialize Pull Request
        uses: gha-utilities/init-pull-request@v0.4.0
        with:
          verbose: true
          pull_request_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          head: pr-pages
          base: gh-pages
          title: 'Updates site files from latest Actions build'
          body: >
            Perhaps a multi-line description
            about latest features and such.

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Notes

According to OctoKit documentation for octokit.pulls.create...

You cannot submit a pull request to one repository that requests a merge to a base of another repository.

... and...

For cross-repository pull requests in the same network, namespace head with a user like this: username:branch

      - name: Initialize Pull Request
        uses: gha-utilities/init-pull-request@v0.4.0
        with:
          verbose: true
          pull_request_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          head: 'your-name:pr-pages'
          base: gh-pages
          title: 'Updates site files from latest Actions build'
          body: >
            Perhaps a multi-line description
            about latest features and such.

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To assign a different repository modify the GITHUB_REPOSITORY environment variable...

      - name: Initialize Pull Request
        uses: gha-utilities/init-pull-request@v0.4.0
        env:
          GITHUB_REPOSITORY: maintainer/repo-name
        with:
          verbose: true
          pull_request_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          head: your-name:pr-pages
          base: gh-pages
          title: 'Updates site files from latest Actions build'
          body: >
            Perhaps a multi-line description
            about latest features and such.

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Inputs marked [Experimental] within action.yaml file (such as maintainer_can_modify and draft) when defined may cause issues, thus it is a good idea to also define debug: true when testing, eg...

      - name: Initialize Pull Request
        uses: gha-utilities/init-pull-request@v0.4.0
        env:
          GITHUB_REPOSITORY: maintainer/repo-name
        with:
          verbose: true
          debug: true
          draft: false
          maintainer_can_modify: true
          pull_request_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          head: your-name:pr-pages
          base: gh-pages
          title: 'Updates site files from latest Actions build'
          body: >
            Perhaps a multi-line description
            about latest features and such.

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This repository may not be feature complete, or fully operational, Pull Requests are most welcomed ;-)

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Attribution

• GitHub -- @actions/github

• GitHub -- @actions/core

• GitHub -- peter-evans/create-pull-request

• GitHub -- ad-m/github-push-action

• GitHub -- Creating a JavaScript Action, specifically the commit-and-push-your-action-to-github section that states dependencies must be checked into Git tracking.

• GitHub -- Workflow syntax for GitHub actions

• GitHub -- Action fails quietly due to Unhandled promise rejection

• GitHub -- actions/typescript-action

• GitHub Dev -- Create a Pull Request

• OctoKit -- Create a Pull Request

• StackOverflow -- GitHub Actions share Workspace Artifacts between jobs

• StackOverflow -- How to find which promises are unhandled in Node.js UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning?

• Medium -- How to prevent your Node.js process from crashing

• NodeJS -- process Event: unhandledRejection

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License

Legal bits of Open Source software. Note the following license does not necessarily apply to any dependencies of this repository, see licensing and documentation for those within there respective sub-directories under node_modules/.

Initialize Pull Request GitHub Actions documentation
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