File Sync Action

A GitHub Action for syncing files across repositories.

The basics

This GitHub Action allows you to hold a file in a central repository and propagate it to other repositories automatically on every update. When the file changes in the source repository, File Sync Action will create a pull request on each configured mirror to propagate the update.

Configuration

The action supports the following inputs:

Name	Description	Default
files	A JSON string containing the file mapping	{}
token	GitHub access token

The files input is a JSON string containing a mapping of remote files to local paths in your repository.

For example, if you'd like the file from.md in the netlify/foobar repository to map to the to.md path in your repository, the files should be:

{"netlify/foobar#from.md": "to.md"}

Usage

Add the File Sync Action to a GitHub workflow:

 on:
   schedule:
     - cron: '* * * * *'

 jobs:
   sync_files:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Git checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - name: File Sync
         uses: netlify/file-sync-action@v1
         with:
           files: '{"netlify/foobar#from.md": "to.md"}'
           token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Contributors

Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for instructions on how to set up and work on this repository. Thanks for contributing!