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SystemicPlural
SystemicPlural

Reputation: 5789

How do I use Github actions to checkout a different public repo, then add some files from this repo to it, then build etc

I'm trying to work out how to use Github Actions to checkout a remote public repo, then add some some sensitive files into it from the current repo, before finally building etc.

I believe I can checkout a remote repo with 

steps:
  - name: Checkout
    uses: actions/checkout@v2
    with:
      repository: foo-user/bar-repo

But how do I then copy some files into this checked out repo from files that are in the current repo?

Upvotes: 23

Views: 30527

Answers (1)

smac89
smac89

Reputation: 43108

You have a couple options:

Checkout your repo and then checkout the public repo:

steps:
  - name: Checkout
    uses: actions/checkout@v2
    with:
      repository: foo-user/bar-repo
      path: './bar'

Now you can go ahead and copy files from the folder bar into whereever else you want

The other option is to have the public repo as a submodule, then you can simply do:

steps:
  - name: Checkout
    uses: actions/checkout@v2
    with:
      submodules: true

Upvotes: 29

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