Update Sync Configuration for BetaHuhn/repo-file-sync-action

This action is used to update the sync configuration for the repo-file-sync-action action. Configuring this will allow for repositories created from a configured template to be auto-added to the sync.yaml file.

Configuring the Action

Create your sync file using the group format as described in the repo-file-sync-action

Add the new templates entry to the sync file

group:
  - files:
      - source: file1.txt
        dest: file1.txt
      - source: file2.txt
        dest: file2.txt
    templates: |
      devnw/oss-template
      devnw/template
    repos: |
      devnw/plex

Create your workflow (I used .github/workflows/sync.yml)

name: Sync Files
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
  workflow_dispatch:
jobs:
  sync:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout Repository
        uses: actions/checkout@main
      - name: Sync Template Generated Repositories
        uses: benjivesterby/update-sync-for-templates@main
        with: 
          token: "${{ secrets.GH_PAT }}"
      - name: Run Repo File Sync Action
        uses: BetaHuhn/repo-file-sync-action@latest
        with:
          GH_PAT: ${{ secrets.GH_PAT }}
          CONFIG_PATH: sync.yml
          COMMIT_EACH_FILE: false

1. Setup the BetaHuhn/repo-file-sync-action action in your GitHub organization.
   1. Example here: https://github.com/devnw/shared
2. Create a template repository and add your workflow file
   1. Here's a functional example: Template Sync Action
   2. I recommend .github/workflows/sync.yml
3. Configure your Action
   1. Using the Configuration Options below configure your action.

Example Configuration

name: Template Sync

on: [push, pull_request]

jobs:
  update-sync:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v2.4.0
      - name: Sync Template Generated Repositories
        uses: benjivesterby/update-sync-for-templates@latest # <-- This is the action
        with: 
          token: "${{ secrets.GH_PAT }}"
      - name: Run Repo File Sync Action
        uses: BetaHuhn/repo-file-sync-action@latest
        with:
          GH_PAT: ${{ secrets.GH_PAT }}
          CONFIG_PATH: sync.yml
          COMMIT_EACH_FILE: false

Personal Access Token

In order for the Action to access your repositories you have to specify a Personal Access Token as the value for GH_PAT (GITHUB_TOKEN will not work). The PAT needs the full repo scope.

Options

Option	Required	Description
token	✅	Personal access token which has permissions the configured templates in the sync file, see here for more.
sync_file	❌	The sync yaml file (default: sync.yml)
org	❌	Org override for template search (default: template organization)
author_name	❌	The name of the user that will be displayed as the author of the commit. (default: Github Action Bot)
author_email	❌	The email of the user that will be displayed as the author of the commit. (default: Github Action Bot)

This action is a heavily modified hard fork of original work done by Matthew Elphick matt.a.elphy@gmail.com