✅ Create a verified commit with GitHub Actions
This action allows you to create a commit with GitHub Actions. Commits created with this actions will be marked as verified.
In your workflow, to commit a file ./myfile, include a step like this:
- name: Commit file
uses: swinton/[email protected]
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
with:
files: |
myfile
commit-message: Committing ./myfile
ref: refs/heads/my-branchNote, the GH_TOKEN environment variable is required, since commits are created using GitHub's Git Database API.
To commit multiple files in a single commit, pass each file on a newline to the files input:
- name: Commit files
uses: swinton/[email protected]
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
with:
files: |
path/to/myfile1
path/to/myfile2
path/to/myfile3
commit-message: Committing files
ref: refs/heads/my-branchThe following inputs are required:
files: Newline-separated list of files to be committed, relative to root of repository, e.g.myfile1
myfile2
...
myfileNcommit-message: Commit message to be used, e.g.Add ./myfileref: Fully qualified name of reference to be updated with commit, e.g.refs/heads/production. This reference must already exist. Defaults to the repository's default branch ref.
This action provides the following outputs:
commit-sha: SHA of created commit