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## Usage
See [examples](examples.md) for detailed use cases.
Linux
```yml
- name: Create Pull Request
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If there are files or directories you want to ignore you can simply add them to a `.gitignore` file at the root of your repository. The action will respect this file.
## Examples
## Reference Example
This first example workflow is a reference example that sets all the main environment variables.
See further examples below for more realistic use cases.
This workflow is a reference example that sets all the main environment variables.
See [examples](examples.md) for more realistic use cases.
```yml
name: Create Pull Request
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run: echo "Pull Request Number - $PULL_REQUEST_NUMBER"
```
This configuration will create pull requests that look like this:
This reference configuration will create pull requests that look like this:
![Pull Request Example](assets/pull-request-example.png)
### Use case: Create a pull request to update X periodically
This example workflow executes once a week and will create a pull request for any dependency updates.
This pattern will work well for updating any kind of static content from an external source.
```yml
name: Update Dependencies
on:
schedule:
- cron: '0 10 * * 1'
jobs:
update-deps:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v1
- uses: actions/setup-node@v1
with:
node-version: '10.x'
- name: Update dependencies
id: vars
run: |
npm install -g npm-check-updates
ncu -u
npm install
- name: Create Pull Request
uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v1.6.0
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
COMMIT_MESSAGE: update dependencies
COMMIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL: peter-evans@users.noreply.github.com
COMMIT_AUTHOR_NAME: Peter Evans
PULL_REQUEST_TITLE: Automated Dependency Updates
PULL_REQUEST_BODY: This is an auto-generated PR with dependency updates.
PULL_REQUEST_LABELS: dep-updates, automated pr
PULL_REQUEST_REVIEWERS: peter-evans
PULL_REQUEST_BRANCH: dep-updates
BRANCH_SUFFIX: none
```
### Use case: Create a pull request to modify/fix pull requests
The following is an example workflow for a use case where [autopep8 action](https://github.com/peter-evans/autopep8) runs as both a check on pull requests and raises a further pull request to apply code fixes. This is a pattern that would work well for any automated code linting and fixing.
How it works:
1. When a pull request is raised the workflow executes as a check
2. If autopep8 makes any fixes a pull request will be raised for those fixes to be merged into the current pull request branch. The workflow then deliberately causes the check to fail.
3. When the pull request containing the fixes is merged the workflow runs again. This time autopep8 makes no changes and the check passes.
4. The original pull request can now be merged.
```yml
name: autopep8
on: pull_request
jobs:
autopep8:
if: startsWith(github.head_ref, 'autopep8-patches') == false
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v1
- name: autopep8
id: autopep8
uses: peter-evans/autopep8@v1.1.0
with:
args: --exit-code --recursive --in-place --aggressive --aggressive .
- name: Set autopep8 branch name
id: vars
run: echo ::set-output name=branch-name::"autopep8-patches/$GITHUB_HEAD_REF"
- name: Create Pull Request
if: steps.autopep8.outputs.exit-code == 2
uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v1.6.0
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
COMMIT_MESSAGE: autopep8 action fixes
COMMIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL: peter-evans@users.noreply.github.com
COMMIT_AUTHOR_NAME: Peter Evans
PULL_REQUEST_TITLE: Fixes by autopep8 action
PULL_REQUEST_BODY: This is an auto-generated PR with fixes by autopep8.
PULL_REQUEST_LABELS: autopep8, automated pr
PULL_REQUEST_REVIEWERS: peter-evans
PULL_REQUEST_BRANCH: ${{ steps.vars.outputs.branch-name }}
BRANCH_SUFFIX: none
- name: Fail if autopep8 made changes
if: steps.autopep8.outputs.exit-code == 2
run: exit 1
```
### Filtering push events
For workflows using `on: push` you may want to ignore push events for tags and remotes.
These can be filtered out with the following `if` condition.
```yml
name: Create Pull Request
on: push
jobs:
createPullRequest:
if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/heads/')
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v1
...
```
### Dynamic configuration using variables
The following examples show how configuration for the action can be dynamically defined in a previous workflow step.
The recommended method is to use `set-output`. Note that the step where output variables are defined must have an id.
```yml
- name: Set output variables
id: vars
run: |
echo ::set-output name=pr_title::"[Test] Add report file $(date +%d-%m-%Y)"
echo ::set-output name=pr_body::"This PR was auto-generated on $(date +%d-%m-%Y) \
by [create-pull-request](https://github.com/peter-evans/create-pull-request)."
- name: Create Pull Request
uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v1.6.0
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
PULL_REQUEST_TITLE: ${{ steps.vars.outputs.pr_title }}
PULL_REQUEST_BODY: ${{ steps.vars.outputs.pr_body }}
```
Since the action reads environment variables from the system, it's technically not necessary to explicitly pass them as long as they exist in the environment. So the following method using `set-env` *also* works, but explicitly passing the configuration parameters using the previous method is perferred for its clarity.
```yml
- name: Set environment variables
run: |
echo ::set-env name=PULL_REQUEST_TITLE::"[Test] Add report file $(date +%d-%m-%Y)"
echo ::set-env name=PULL_REQUEST_BODY::"This PR was auto-generated on $(date +%d-%m-%Y) \
by [create-pull-request](https://github.com/peter-evans/create-pull-request)."
- name: Create Pull Request
uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v1.6.0
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
```
## License
[MIT](LICENSE)