Git: Copy folder from master to the root of another branch

Question

I have a static website which is generating an output folder to the MyBlog/output in the master branch. But I want output to be the source of my GH Pages, I am looking for a way to use output as the root of gh-pages branch.

That's my deploy.yml

name: Deploy Site
on: 
  push:
    branches:
      - master

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: windows-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@master
      with:
        submodules: recursive
    - uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v1
      with:
        dotnet-version: '3.1.100'
    - run: dotnet run --project "MyBlog" -- deploy
      env:
        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
    - run: git push

What should I do / add to my deploy.yml to do what I want please.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Ok, this should work. Remove the last line - run: git push from your action. Then add the following.

- name: Deploy
  uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v3
  with:
    github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
    publish_dir: ./MyBlog/output

Finally your deploy.yml should be:

name: Deploy Site
on: 
  push:
    branches:
      - master

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: windows-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@master
      with:
        submodules: recursive
    - uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v1
      with:
        dotnet-version: '3.1.100'
    - run: dotnet run --project "MyBlog" -- deploy
      env:
        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
    - name: Deploy
      uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v3
      with:
        github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        publish_dir: ./MyBlog/output

I am assuming that MyBlog is a folder present at root. Then this action will put the contents of your output folder into the gh-pages branch directly. I hope this is what you wanted to achieve.

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