@andre601 ,

You can use the  git push command to push your local changes to the remote GitHub repository.

Before execute the git push, you need to set the  git config.

A simple demo to push changes to remote in the workflow:

- name: update file and push to remote
        run: |
          echo "Test push commit to the remote in the workflow" >> test.txt
      git config --global user.name "github-actions[bot]"
      git config --global user.email "41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"

      git add -A
      git commit -m "Update test.txt"
      git push

Here I use the bot account github-actions[bot] to set the  git config. You also can set yourself account if you want.

So this would only push files that are in the docs directory on the workflow?
I don’t really want to test this out, as I fear it could mess up the repository, which I would like to avoid.

Also, does this mean that the workflow already has a git-repo setup? Doesn’t it also require it to first being setup in order to push stuff, or does GitHub (Actions) already set the workflow to have the repository as a remote set?

Thank you very much!

It works now and like I wanted it to.

But before I go another small question. I currently use a workflow on another repository to automatically push changes to the gh-pages branch of said repository and created a PAT (Personal Access Token) for it.

Is this even required? Because when I check my PATs is this one shown as “never used”.

I have it as secret in the repo and use it when adding a remote (I guess? I assume this isn’t really needed here?)

git remote add gh-token "https://${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN}}@github.com/:user/:repo.git"

The entire workflow:

name: Deploy Site
on:

push:

paths:

- 'docs/'

- '.yml'

branches:

- master
jobs:

build:

runs-on: [ubuntu-latest]

steps:

- uses: actions/checkout@v2

- name: Set up Python 3.7

uses: actions/setup-python@v1

with:

python-version: 3.7

- name: Install dependencies

run: |

python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools

python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

- name: Deploy Files

run: |

git config user.name ${{ secrets.GH_USER }}

git config user.email "${{ secrets.GH_MAIL }}"

git remote add gh-token "https://${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN}}@github.com/:user/:repo.git"

git fetch gh-token && git fetch gh-token gh-pages:gh-pages

python -m mkdocs gh-deploy -v --clean --remote-name gh-token

git push gh-token gh-pages

To add there is an automatically generated token secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN now.

Authentication in a workflow - GitHub Docs

//docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/authentication-in-a-workflow