Error: Error: Command failed: git add -A && git commit -m "Commited changes from previous actions"

[Kimmy Wang]

name: Deploy To Heroku

on:
  push:
    branches: [ main ]

jobs:
  deploy-to-heroku:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN }}
          submodules: true

      - name: Deploy To Heroku
        uses: akhileshns/heroku-deploy@v3.12.12 # This is the action
        with:
          heroku_api_key: ${{secrets.HEROKU_API_KEY}}
          heroku_app_name: ${{secrets.HEROKU_APP_NAME_TS}} #Must be unique in Heroku
          heroku_email: ${{secrets.HEROKU_EMAIL}}
          procfile: ${{secrets.HEROKU_PROCFILE}}
          env_file: '.env'

[Tuomas Tammero]

Ran into the same issue. Seems to be that if some actions ran in the same job change file contents, the action tries to commit those https://github.com/AkhileshNS/heroku-deploy/blob/master/index.js#L190-L193

I can't see why the action should commit anything. For me the issue was commitlint rules not allowing this syntax and out of sync yarn lockfile, which was updated when installing dependencies.

[chunf]

Edited: I just confirmed this, this is due to submodules especially when your submodule is not at the latest commit.