pushing a commit to the branch that the github action is ran on

[callum-maguire]

 - uses: EndBug/[email protected]
        with:
          add: 'something/frontend/src/locales/en/en.json'
          message: '[skip ci] Update translations from scanner'
          push: --force

This works but we want to run on the latest version

so we migrated to

 - uses: EndBug/[email protected]
        with:
          add: 'something/frontend/src/locales/en/en.json'
          message: '[skip ci] Update translations from scanner'
          push: --force

This is not working, the error is Error: fatal: You are not currently on a branch.

Thank you for any help or assistance in advance

[EndBug]

Since v8.0.0, the action works with whatever has been checked out in previous steps (changelog). If you check out the branch you want to push to with either git commands or actions/checkout, then the action will push to that branch. You can also use the pull input to run git pull before creating the commit.

[anuj-scanova]

@callum-maguire I got it working with the following

      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.ref }}

    ....

      - name: Update pull request
        uses: EndBug/add-and-commit@v9
        with:
          author_name: i18n Extract
          committer_name: GitHub Actions
          committer_email: 41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com
          add: '*.xlf'
          fetch: false

Hope this helps you too.

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