Git Sync

A GitHub Action for syncing between two independent repositories using optionally force push.

Features

• Sync branches between two GitHub repositories
• Sync branches to/from a remote repository
• GitHub action can be triggered on a timer or on push
• To sync with current repository, please checkout Github Repo Sync

Usage

GitHub Actions

# File: .github/workflows/repo-sync.yml

on: push
jobs:
  repo-sync:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - name: repo-sync
      uses: tcpl/git-sync@v2
      env:
        SOURCE_REPO: ""
        SOURCE_BRANCH: ""
        DESTINATION_REPO: ""
        DESTINATION_BRANCH: ""
        EMAIL: ""
        NAME: ""
        FORCE: ""
        SSH_PRIVATE_KEY: ${{ secrets.SSH_PRIVATE_KEY }}
      with:
        args: $SOURCE_REPO $SOURCE_BRANCH $DESTINATION_REPO $DESTINATION_BRANCH $EMAIL $NAME

SSH_PRIVATE_KEY can be omitted if using authenticated HTTPS repo clone urls like https://username:access_token@github.com/username/repository.git.

EMAIL and NAME will be set as the git username and email for the push commit

FORCE defaults to false and will only be enforced when passing true. Still needs to be passed as an empty string for default.

Advanced: Sync all branches

To Sync all branches from source to destination, use SOURCE_BRANCH: "refs/remotes/source/*" and DESTINATION_BRANCH: "refs/heads/*". But be careful, branches with the same name including master will be overwritten.

Docker

docker run --rm -e "SSH_PRIVATE_KEY=$(cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa)" $(docker build -q .) \
  $SOURCE_REPO $SOURCE_BRANCH $DESTINATION_REPO $DESTINATION_BRANCH

Authors

Original repo from Wei He

Updated by tcpl to suit needs