Not able to forcefully push code via Github workflow

[xavierbrabhakar]

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Team, I have a protected branch in GitHub, after enabling the "bypass actor to foreful push" i am able to push forcefully via local machine.
But the same command is being used in the workflow to commit the code getting below error.

remote: error: GH006: Protected branch update failed for refs/heads/test.
remote: error: Changes must be made through a pull request.
To https://github.com/abc/xyz
! [remote rejected] test -> test (protected branch hook declined)
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/abc/xyz'
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

Could you please suggest on this.

[Faiaz3k]

use CI or CD tool

[xavierbrabhakar]

GitHub Workflow for this.

[xavierbrabhakar]

1. Enabled this repo permission --> Allow specified actors to bypass required pull requests
2. Enabled Read and write permissions under Workflow permissions

name:Update Version from CI

  | on:
  | workflow_dispatch:
  | inputs:
  | app-name:
  | description: 'app name'
  | type: string
  | default: test-bump
  | required: true
  | image-version:
  | description: 'New image version'
  | type: string
  | required: true
  |  
  | permissions:
  | contents: write
  | packages: 'write'
  | actions: 'read'
  |  
  | jobs:
  | test_version:
  | runs-on: ubuntu-latest
  |  
  | steps:
  | - name: Show the inputs
  | run: |
  | echo "app-name: ${{ inputs.app-name }}"
  | echo "image-version: ${{ inputs.image-version }}"
  |  
  | - name: Checkout repository
  | uses: actions/checkout@v2
  |  
  | - name: Update version
  | run: |
  | cd ${{ github.workspace }}/root-apps/${{ inputs.app-name }}
  | sed -i 's/tag:.*$/tag: ${{ inputs.image-version }}/' test.yaml
  |  
  | - name: Check for changes
  | run: |
  | if git diff --quiet && git diff --cached --quiet; then
  | echo "No changes to push"
  | else
  | echo "Changes detected"
  | fi
  | - name: Add and commit changes (if any)
  | run: |
  | if git diff --quiet && git diff --cached --quiet; then
  | exit 0
  | fi
  | git config --global user.name 'abc'
  | git config --global user.email 'abc@xyz.com'
  | git add .
  | git commit -m "${{ inputs.app-name }} -> ${{ inputs.image-version }}"
  | - name: Push changes (consider using pull requests)
  | env:
  | GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.PAT_CICD_TOKEN }}
  | run: |
  | git push -f origin  HEAD:refs/heads/test   Please guide if I am doing anything wrong?
 

[xavierbrabhakar]

Thanks Sivamani. I taken GitHub APP approach and working fine now.