Setup Git user
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(2)GitHub Action that sets git user and email to enable committing
If you try to use git commit
or git tag
on GitHub Actions, it will throw an error:
This action is a convenience action which sets the user and email in one line.
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v3
- uses: fregante/setup-git-user@v2
- run: git commit --message 'Something cool'
- run: git push
New commits and tags will be assigned to the @actions user. If you want to customize the user, you don't need this action. Just use:
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v3
- run: git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
- run: git config --global user.name "Your Name"
- run: git commit --message 'Something cool'
- run: git push
- daily-version-action - Creates a new tag using the format Y.M.D, but only if HEAD isn’t already tagged.
- title-to-labels-action - Cleans up the titles of issues and PRs from common opening keywords.
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