This GitHub Action copies a folder from the current repository to a location in another repository. The action takes care to create the directory, if not yet present.

name: Push File

on: push

jobs:
  copy-file:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - name: Checkout
      uses: actions/checkout@v2

    - name: Pushes test folder
      uses: datalbry/[email protected]
      env:
        API_TOKEN_GITHUB: ${{ secrets.API_TOKEN_GITHUB }}
      with:
        source_folder: 'test_files'
        destination_repo: 'dmnemec/release-test'
        destination_folder: 'test-dir'
        user_email: '[email protected]'
        user_name: 'dmnemec'
        commit_msg: '[GHA] Update the test files.'

• source_folder: The folder to be moved.
• destination_repo: The repository to place the folder in.
• destination_folder: [optional] The folder in the destination repository to place the file in, if not the root directory.
• user_email: The GitHub user email associated with the API token secret.
• user_name: The GitHub username associated with the API token secret.
• destination_branch: [optional] The branch of the destination repo to base the changes on and push to (defaults to master).
• destination_branch_create: [optional] The branch the changes should be pushed to; defaults to commiting to destination_branch; is useful for creating PRs
• commit_msg: [optional] The commit message to use.

The action will remove the destionation folder before recreating it to place any copied files in it.