nothing to commit, working tree clean

[bandantonio]

Hi
No matter what I do, I'm constantly seeing this in logs:

[+] Adding git commit
[+] git status:
On branch master
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.

nothing to commit, working tree clean
[+] git diff-index:
[+] Pushing git commit
Everything up-to-date
Branch 'master' set up to track remote branch 'master' from 

The job sees source and target directories correctly but even after merging a PR to master, it can't track new changes. Can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

[bandantonio]

Another question: As I can see from the current behavior, the action works only with the master (source) branch. Is it possible to define a custom source branch? It would be extremely useful for testing purposes.

[cpina]

@bandantonio : if you are still trying to use it: could you link to the repository so I can see the file .github/workflows/ci.yml? I might be able to help in this case.

The custom source branch should be the branch that is executed by the Action. The script is not doing a checkout of the source repository (the files are already there when this step is executed, possibly by the step actions/checkout@v2.

[drewdecarme]

I'm having the same issue at the moment. When I run the checkout before the script, it finds all of the files but then it says that there's nothing to commit. In addition, checking out the repo also causes a 403.

Here's a log of the action: https://github.com/the-montessori-woodshop/the-montessori-woodshop/runs/4574401075?check_suite_focus=true

Here's the GitHub action.yml file: https://github.com/the-montessori-woodshop/the-montessori-woodshop/blob/main/.github/workflows/main.yml

[drewdecarme]

Turns out the issue I had was that I was trying to copy the root of my source directory with the .git folder inside of it. Copying that to the root of the destination repository was causing issues. I instead added a target-directory to the script and everything worked great :)

[cpina]

Thanks @drewdecarme for the update. I want to spend some time writing tests (#59) and I will add one for this and try to fix it. No ETA yet :-( but I'm happy that it's all good for you! :-)

[cpina]

I've opened #79 to re-verify and action. Thanks for the report.

[Nickman87]

Had the same issue, fixed it by adding - run: rm -rf .git before calling the push action.

It only started happening for me when I moved this action into a seperate workflow AND when I changed up the target branch(es) to new ones (to differentiate between staging and production).
It worked just fine before I changed the target.