Why git-auto-commit-action does not consider my all git history?

[charnould]

Hello,
First, thanks for making this GH action; it's a life/time-saver :-).
However, and I'm a git-auto-commit-action newbie, I have an issue/problem.

Consider this GH action:

name: Build changelog

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master

jobs:
  run-braudel:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    permissions:
      contents: write

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: oven-sh/setup-bun@v2
      - run: bun build:changelog

      # Commit all changed files back to the repository
      - uses: stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action@v5
        with:
          commit_message: 'docs: auto-generate changelog'
          commit_user_name: robot

I'm totally able to auto-commit on push; this is perfect BUT:

• why does author keep being github-actions[bot] and not bot
• but my main issue is:
  bun build:changelog (similar to npx build:changelog) just runs an npm script generating a changelog of all my commit history. When I run this script locally, it outputs my all commit history (OK), but when I do it via my GH action, it prints/outputs/writes only my LAST commit (NOT OK).

Do you know what's happening?

Thanks for your guidance!

[stefanzweifel]

Hi!

why does author keep being github-actions[bot] and not bot

"github-actions[bot]" is the default commit_user_name I've used when I launched this project.
The idea was to showcase, that the commit was made by a bot and that the commit was made through GitHub Actions. When I remember correctly, I think this was the same schema how Dependabot made commits.

As you might already noticed, you can change that by passing a different string to commit_user_name.

To your main issue: This is related to actions/checkout. By default, only a single commit is fetched. If you want the entire history of the repository available during a Actions run, you have to pass fetch-depth: 0 to that step.

You workflow should then look like this:

name: Build changelog

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master

jobs:
  run-braudel:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    permissions:
      contents: write

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
      - uses: oven-sh/setup-bun@v2
      - run: bun build:changelog

      # Commit all changed files back to the repository
      - uses: stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action@v5
        with:
          commit_message: 'docs: auto-generate changelog'
          commit_user_name: robot

[charnould]

it works like a charm for fetch-depth: 0; thanks.
However bot's name still is github-actions[bot], weird.... any clue?
Thanks again!

[stefanzweifel]

@charnould It looks like the commit_user_email takes presedence when GitHub deploys the commit user information.
https://github.com/charnould/pierre/actions/runs/10599613904/job/29375069889#step:6:27

Adding a different email address in commit_user_email should fix that.

name: Build changelog

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master

jobs:
  run-braudel:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    permissions:
      contents: write

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
      - uses: oven-sh/setup-bun@v2
      - run: bun build:changelog

      # Commit all changed files back to the repository
      - uses: stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action@v5
        with:
          commit_message: 'docs: auto-generate changelog'
          commit_user_name: robot
          commit_user_email: [email protected]