How do I use Github actions to checkout a different public repo, then add some files from this repo to it, then build etc

Question

I'm trying to work out how to use Github Actions to checkout a remote public repo, then add some some sensitive files into it from the current repo, before finally building etc.

I believe I can checkout a remote repo with

steps:
  - name: Checkout
    uses: actions/checkout@v2
    with:
      repository: foo-user/bar-repo

But how do I then copy some files into this checked out repo from files that are in the current repo?

score 20 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 07 '23 at 18:23

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You have a couple options:

Checkout your repo and then checkout the public repo:

steps:
  - name: Checkout
    uses: actions/checkout@v2
    with:
      repository: foo-user/bar-repo
      path: './bar'

Now you can go ahead and copy files from the folder bar into whereever else you want

The other option is to have the public repo as a submodule, then you can simply do:

steps:
  - name: Checkout
    uses: actions/checkout@v2
    with:
      submodules: true

edited Jul 07 '23 at 18:23

Lucas

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answered May 19 '20 at 10:49

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Thank you. That is very helpful. How would I then copy from one to the other. What paths do I use? Sorry, github actions noob here. – SystemicPlural May 19 '20 at 11:41
@SystemicPlural in both cases, your pwd will be the root of your github repo, and the public repo will be inside this folder. So you can do `cp ./bar/file .` to copy `file` from bar into your repo directory – smac89 May 19 '20 at 11:46
Does `path` have to be relative? – Raffi Khatchadourian May 16 '23 at 16:33

How do I use Github actions to checkout a different public repo, then add some files from this repo to it, then build etc

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