Automatically detecting the default branch name. about copycat-action HOT 6 OPEN

Making some good progress. Obviously git remote will only work post-clone, so I am looking at
git ls-remote to detect branch name, because we need to do it pre-clone.

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@andstor I think I have something testable working for this... there is likely a few kinks to work out.

How do you test Github actions locally for this repo? Or do you just docker build and run and pass the env variables manually? Or do you use something like act?

Any info to help in the local testing process would be great :)

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Automatic detection of the default branch is absolutely something we should try to implement 👍

@spencer741 I took a quick look at the git ls-remotecommand you mentioned. I did a quick google search and came up with something like this:

git ls-remote --symref https://github.com/andstor/copycat-action HEAD | awk '/^ref:/ {sub(/refs\/heads\//, "", $2); print $2}'

It seems to do the trick, but has to be more thoroughly tested, both in terms of reliability and validity.

Regarding testing, I have just sat up two private testing repositories and used GitHub Actions directly. This is absolutely not ideal. For this purpose, act seems to be a much better approach. However, I haven't had time to try it out. Please do share your experience if you decide to try it out! 🤩

Manually testing the action's logic (entrypoint.sh) is however, a somewhat painful task when testing for backwards compatibility. I would therefore really like to get some automatic regression testing implemented. If this is something you would be interested in, I would really appreciate it 😍

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Any progress on this? Surely main should now be the default in the meantime…

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Thanks for bringing this up @danielbayley. I think the owner and I have become extremely busy with life. I'll make a note to myself to dive into this later this week.

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I think the owner and I have become extremely busy with life.

Tell me about it! 😅

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