Action to add a commit to a PR

[SoftCreatR]

Hi,

I’m currently trying to achieve the following:

A user creates a PR, that triggers my action. Within this action, changes are made using a custom script. So far so good, since it works as expected until this point.

Now, I want to create a commit and push it into this PR.

What I’ve found is this action: Create or Update Pull Request · Actions · GitHub Marketplace · GitHub

However, I’m either too stupid to use it right, or it doesn’t work as I’ve expected, because it creates a new PR instead of updating the original one.

Are there alternatives to this action, or is there maybe a way to achieve this without an external action?

[SoftCreatR]

Just tried to manually commit & push, but that fails:

fatal: You are not currently on a branch.
To push the history leading to the current (detached HEAD)
state now, use
git push origin HEAD:<name-of-remote-branch>

[SoftCreatR]

I was able to make it work, using gh:

      - name: Checkout PR
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        run: gh pr checkout ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}
  # other stuff

  - name: Push changes
    env:
      GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
    run: git push

Maybe this helps someone.

[egor-ryashin]

Day saver

[heyajulia]

You're a legend. Thank you!

[Rkejji]

Thanks ! btw if someone encounters this error: "failed to run git: fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git" it means that the command "gh checkout pr" was run in a non git repository(doesn't have the .git file).
To resolve it I added this action in the beginning: actions/checkout@v2.

[Rkejji]

Also don't forget to "git add and git commit" in your script before pushing ^^'

[boclar]

Thanks! @SoftCreatR

[sigmaSd]

It didn't work for me , here is the code I used, it fails to push to the pr with no permission error

https://github.com/sigmaSd/Stimulator/blob/ff3f823227f428497451a8a92956d209536b8b49/.github/workflows/compileTranslations.yml