Inject file action

GitHub action to inject the content of a remote file into a file of your repo.

We use this action to maintain an organization-wide central repo with common sections of a README.md (about our company, license, contributing, etc.). Other repos sync with the latest versions of those sections every time they're built.

Usage

Simple example

It will look for two occurences of <!-- auto-about --> in the file README.md and inject the content of https://test.com/about.md between these two occurences. If this action can't find these occurences, it will inject the content at the end of the README.md file.

uses: olivr-com/inject-file-action@v1
with:
  url: https://test.com/about.md
  target: README.md

<!-- auto-about --> is used because the file being pulled is called about.md

Complete example

It will look for two occurences of <!-- generate-about-section --> in the file README.md and inject the content of https://test.com/about.md between these two occurences. If this action can't find them, it will not inject anything.

uses: olivr-com/inject-file-action@v1
with:
  url: https://test.com/about.md
  target: README.md
  pattern: <!-- generate-about-section -->
  force: false

Contribute

Checkout the v1 branch

Install the dependencies

npm install

Run the tests

npm test

Package for distribution

GitHub Actions will run the entry point from the action.yml. Packaging assembles the code into one file that can be checked in to Git, enabling fast and reliable execution and preventing the need to check in node_modules.

Actions are run from GitHub repos. Packaging the action will create a packaged action in the dist folder.

Run package

npm run package

Since the packaged index.js is run from the dist folder.

git add dist