Problems when action runs on a tag push

[olilarkin]

Hello,

Thanks very much for your hard work on this. I've got a problem and I'm not sure the best approach to deal with it. I want to use this action on push, only with a specific git tag, but when I do that it ends up deleting my gh-pages branch and yet says deployment successful. With no tag, it works fine.

any ideas what I should do? I guess the git tag checkout is a detached head and has no notion of gh-pages branch?

thanks!

action log:

Reinitialized existing Git repository in /github/workspace/.git/
error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git.
Deploying to GitHub...
fatal: ambiguous argument 'master': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
To https://github.com/jamesb93/iPlug2OOS.git
 - [deleted]         gh-pages
Deployment succesful!

`
on:
push:
tags:
- "v*"

• name: Publish to pages
  uses: JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-action@master
  env:
  GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
  BASE_BRANCH: master
  BRANCH: gh-pages
  FOLDER: ${{env.PROJECT_NAME}}/build-web
  `

[JamesIves]

Can you try upgrading the action to the latest version? You're still running on version 1 and a lot has changed since then. What you have should be fine, just change the version number to JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-action@3.7.1.

[olilarkin]

ok thanks , i assumed master would include the latest changes.. i'll try changing it

[olilarkin]

With the new version I get "error branch is required". On the plus side, deployment fails now.

Should I add a step to create a branch from the detached HEAD state ?

https://github.com/iPlug2/iPlug2OOS/runs/1347871623

[JamesIves]

Swap out env with with for the variables specific to this action.

[olilarkin]

thanks, that worked :-)