Clone Github Releases

gha-clone-releases

Description

Clone the releases in one repo to this one

This github action can clone releases from a source repo to your repo. This is useful if you are using a repo to build container images for an upstream container. You can run this action on a cron schedule to pick up new releases and build new containers.

Usage

On each run, it will find all releases in src_repo and the dest_repo, find any releases that exist in src_repo and not in your dest_repo, and then will create those releases in dest_repo.

If you don't define a dest_repo, it will use the repo the action is running on as a destination.

Private Repos

To use this repo with a private repo, you must use a Personal Access Token with access to both the src_repo and dest_repo as your token.

Github Enterprise

This action supports setting the Github API URL for both the src_repo and dest_repo separately, allowing you to clone releases between GHE and Github, or to use this action with GHE based repos.

Example workflow

Here is an example usage of this workflow. If you set this up, every time it runs it would create releases in your repo that mirror the releases in andrewthetechie/testrepo.

name: Clone
on:
  # kick off the job on demand
  workflow_dispatch:
  # and run on a schedule every 12 hours
  schedule:
    - cron: "* */12 * * *"
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Run action
        uses: andrewthetechie/gha-clone-releases@v1
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          src_repo: andrewthetechie/test-repo

Inputs

parameter	description	required	default
token	Github token	`true`
dest_token	Github token used for destination repo. If not set, token parameter is used	`false`
src_repo	Source repo to clone from	`true`
src_repo_github_api_url	API repo for the src_repo. Defaults to Github. Set this if using GHE	`false`	https://api.github.com
dest_repo	Destination repo to clone to, default is this repo	`false`
dest_repo_github_api_url	API repo for the dest_repo. Defaults to Github. Set this if using GHE	`false`	https://api.github.com
target	Target for new tags/releases in this repo. If not set, will use the default branch	`false`
skip_draft	Skip draft releases	`false`	false
skip_prerelease	Skip Prereleases	`false`	false
copy_assets	If true, copy assets from source repo releases to the newly created releases	`false`	false
limit	A limit of how many releases to add on a single run. Good for not overwhelming CI systems	`false`	0
dry_run	If true, just output what releases would have been made but do not make releases	`false`	false
min_version	If set, we will ignore any releases from the source repo that are less than min_version	`false`