Git add and commit with Python script running on GitHub Actions-CodePudding

I want to add and commit a file with Python script to a repo running on the GitHub Actions server. I am committing a file by running the following in my main.py file:

import os
FILE = './file.txt'
os.system(f'git add {FILE}')
os.system("git commit -m 'update file'")

On GitHub actions, I am running Python script as:

- name: Commit file
    run: python commit_file.py

But there isn't any scripts commits on the repo master branch after GitHub actions run.

On my local machine, os.system("git commit -m 'update file'") command is running normally, and I can verify that the commit exist with the git log command. On the GitHub actions, the following error occurs:

Run Commit file
python commit_file.py
Author identity unknown

*** Please tell me who you are.

Run

  git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
  git config --global user.name "Your Name"

to set your account's default identity.
Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository.

fatal: empty ident name (for <runner@fv-az112-319.bzi55m0t1ufu323ye4cn5ktith.xx.internal.cloudapp.net>) not allowed

EDIT: I've added two more lines which will configure git credentials:

os.system('git config --global user.email "[email protected]"')
os.system('git config --global user.name "GitHub Actions"')

and now, the warnings are gone, but there is still no commit on the repo.

CodePudding user response：

It's as the error states, you need to configure the user email and name using git config when you want to commit a new file to a repo using github action.

Note: Those values can be fake, hardcoded or depend on a variable.

You just need to add those 2 command lines before the git add and the git commit commands in your python script.

Moreover, you will need to perform a git push at the end of the script for the file to appear on the repository branch at the end of the workflow run.