exclude files from commit

[gergely-pepper]

Hi,

I'd like to exclude .yarnrc.yml from the auto commit, because it complains about a security issue.
I but don't want to add it to .gitignore, because it makes sense locally.

in a terminal, git add ':!.yarnrc.yml' or git add ':!.yarnrc.yml' . or git add . ':!.yarnrc.yml' would do this.

I'm trying to set different values to add_options and/or file_pattern. I tried variations of apostrophe and quote around it, nesting them, escaping : and/or !, but either it was adding .yarnrc.yml too, or failed with an error like fatal: pathspec '':!.yarnrc.yml'' did not match any files

Can you please help?

[stefanzweifel]

Hi there

Without seeing your workflow code, I assume your job is very basic and looks similar to this:

- uses: stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action@v7
  with:
    file_pattern: ":!.yarnrc.yml"

I think there's a high chance the translation from YAML to the workflow run is the problem here.

My suggestion would be to skip git-auto-commit-action completely and just run the git-commands yourself.

If you would like to still use git-auto-commit, a few solutions come to mind (not tested):

Manually stage files, skip dirty checks and use git add --no-all.

- name: Stage files except .yarnrc.yml
  run: |
    git add .
    git reset -- .yarnrc.yml

- uses: stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action@v7
  with:
    skip_dirty_check: true
    add_options: '--no-all'

Or run your git-add command before git-auto-commit and skip dirty checks again.

- name: Add files with exclusion
  run: |
    # This properly handles the exclusion syntax
    git add . ':!.yarnrc.yml'
    
- uses: stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action@v7
  with:
    skip_dirty_check: true
    add_options: '--no-all'

---

Also to note: file_pattern is INPUT_FILE_PATTERN in our code and is being used during the git-status and git-add calls.

• https://github.com/stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action/blob/master/entrypoint.sh#L97
• https://github.com/stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action/blob/master/entrypoint.sh#L155

[gergely-pepper]

Yeah, sorry, I just updated the question with all the details.

I debugged into the code locally and figured it out that although I was running the autocommit from a subdir, I tried to exclude the file relatively from there by add_options: ':!.yarnrc.yml'.

I figured out that if I set the absolute add_options: ':!frontend/.yarnrc.yml', it works fine. Thank you all.