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Can't overwrite files on the branch with the action #390

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illright opened this issue Jul 10, 2020 · 8 comments
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Can't overwrite files on the branch with the action #390

illright opened this issue Jul 10, 2020 · 8 comments
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Describe the bug

My CI is set up to deploy pull requests to separate folders to allow previewing changes. I've run into an issue while trying to push subsequent commits onto a pull request branch that has already been deployed.

On the Prepare publishing assets step (this line of code) it is trying to copy the assets over the previously existing ones, and even though force is set to true while copying, it still fails with EEXIST: file already exists.

This failure is (probably mistakenly) treated as a failure to check out a branch, which causes the action to try and create a new branch, which doesn't work because the branch, in fact, exists.

To Reproduce

  1. Set up deploying on pull requests (workflow file here)
  2. Create a pull request and let it deploy
  3. Push more commits to the same branch

Expected behavior

The action should empty out the directory that stores files for this PR, then freshly copy over the new assets

Your YAML file

https://github.com/illright/attractions/blob/develop/.github/workflows/pr_demo.yml

Additional context

Here's the link to the failed job logs:
https://github.com/illright/attractions/runs/857251843?check_suite_focus=true

@illright illright added the bug Something isn't working label Jul 10, 2020
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Now, this use case is not supported.
Related to #324

@peaceiris peaceiris added enhancement New feature or request proposal and removed bug Something isn't working labels Jul 10, 2020
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Actually, there is a simple workaround. The failure is due to the GitHub's Action toolkit's unexpected behaviour with copying stuff. io.cp uses a custom implementation of mkdirP under the hood, which fails with an error when trying to create an existing directory.

The workaround is to forcefully remove the file at filePath (if it happens to exist) right before doing the copy operation.

It won't achieve the desired behaviour fully, since the subdirectory of deployment will still contain old files that weren't overwritten, but for most use cases this is going to be just fine, because the build should complete successfully.

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I plan to replace the copy operation with another and will also consider this. 👍
Related to #103 #163

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The v3.7.0-4 has been released as a beta release.

- name: Deploy
  uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v3.7.0-4
  with:
    github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
    destination_dir: subdir

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peaceiris commented Oct 11, 2020

If you have something wrong, please feel free to open another issue. 👍

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peaceiris added a commit that referenced this issue Oct 15, 2020
Close #520

Related to:

- pr: #512 
- #507 #509 
- #390
- #324
- #103
peaceiris pushed a commit that referenced this issue Oct 15, 2020
Close #520

Related to:

- pr: #512
- #507 #509
- #390
- #324
- #103
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