caffeinum / update-wiki-action

Action to update repository's wiki with changes from main repository.

OrlovM/Wiki-Action

Manage your wiki files in your repository. This action will push changes to the wiki repository.

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Features

• Automatically pushes changes from specified directiory to the wiki.
• Uses author from repository's git commit.
• Uses the commit message from repository's git commit.
• It's easy to pull request/merge wiki files.

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Usage

You should have a copy of your wiki inside your repository. Use git clone [RepositoryName].wiki.git wiki to clone a wiki repo inside your repository.

If wiki does not exist yet, create an empty page on Github wiki through Github web interface.

Example yaml config:

name: Update Wiki

on:
  push:
    paths:
      - 'wiki/**'
    branches:
      - master
jobs:
  update-wiki:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: Update wiki
    steps:
    - uses: OrlovM/Wiki-Action@v1
      with:
        path: 'wiki'
        token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

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The possible inputs are:

• path: (string, required): The directory where your files are located.
• token: (string, required): GitHub access token. In common case it will be appropriate to use GitHub provided action token "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}". More info: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/authentication-in-a-workflow