copy-commit-to-another-repo is a GitHub Action that copies commits from the current repository to another repository. The intent is to enable keeping two isolated repositories in sync; e.g., you have work and home repositories for your dotfiles, and you want to be able to update either, keeping shared files in sync, including commit messages, while not syncing everything.

• PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN - this needs to be set under Settings -> Secrets and variables -> Actions -> New repository secret on the source repository. Create a token under Settings -> Developer settings -> Personal access tokens -> Tokens (classic) or Fine-grained tokens. The token will need repo permissions (classic) or Repository permissions -> Contents permissions (fine-grained).

• destination - the repository to copy commits to.
• branch [optional] - the branch to copy commits to. If unspecified, the default branch for destination will be used.
• include [optional] - a comma-separated list of regular expressions to match against; e.g., hello,world?. If specified, only changes to files that match a pattern in include will be copied. Both include and exclude may be specified. If neither include nor exclude are specified, all changes will be copied.
• exclude [optional] - a comma-separated list of regular expressions to match against; e.g., hello,world?. If specified, all changes will be copied except changes to files that match a pattern in exclude. Both include and exclude may be specified. If neither include nor exclude are specified, all changes will be copied.

name: Copy Commit

on: push

jobs:
  copy-commit:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          fetch-depth: 2
      - name: Copy Commit
        uses: jeffreyc/copy-commit-to-another-repo@v1.0.0
        env:
          PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
        with:
          include: 'hello,world?'
          exclude: '"world,"'
          destination: 'jeffreyc/hello-copy'
          branch: 'staging'

n.b., you must specify fetch-depth: 2 for the Checkout action, else git will be unable to determine what has changed.

copy-commit-to-another-repo is released under the BSD 3-Clause License.