Update File

Automatically update a file by replace marked section with the given content

🚀 Usage

1. Specify the location to update in your the file by adding opening_comment and closing_comment. Such as you can add comments in your markdown file:

<!-- [START AUTO UPDATE] -->
<!-- Please keep comment here to allow auto-update -->
Updated by update-file action
<!-- [END AUTO UPDATE] -->

2. Create a .github/workflows/update-file.yml file in the repository you want to install this action, then add the following to it:

name: Update File
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master
jobs:
  run:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: wow-actions/update-file@v1
        with:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          path: README.md
          content: 'Updated by update-file action'

Inputs

Various inputs are defined to let you configure the action:

Note: Workflow command and parameter names are not case-sensitive.

Name	Description	Default
GITHUB_TOKEN	The GitHub token for authentication	N/A
badges	Badges to add	N/A
path	File path to update	N/A
content	Content to update the file	N/A
commit_message	Commit message when update the file	'chore: update [skip ci]'
opening_comment	The comment to match the start line of section to update	'<!-- [START AUTO UPDATE] -->'
closing_comment	The comment to match the end line of section to update	'<!-- [END AUTO UPDATE] -->'
warning_comment	The comment to match the end line of section to update	'<!-- Please keep comment here to allow auto-update -->'

🔖 License

The scripts and documentation in this project are released under the MIT License