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Fix docs about using in public forks

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Update docs section about using the Action in public forks.

Add warning about current issue when the forks lives under an organisation.

Mark section about running a workflow in the head repository as outdated, as I was not able to reproduce this in test projects.

See https://github.com/stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action/issues/211#issuecomment-1428849944 for more details.
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@ -282,11 +282,14 @@ See [this announcement from GitHub](https://github.blog/2020-08-03-github-action
<details>
<summary>Expand to learn more</summary>
> **Note**
> **Note**
> This Action technically works with forks. However, please note that the combination of triggers and their options can cause issues. Please read [the documentation](https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/actions/reference/events-that-trigger-workflows) on which triggers GitHub Actions support.\
> Ensure your contributors enable "Allow edits by maintainers" when opening a pull request. ([Learn more](https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-pull-requests/working-with-forks/allowing-changes-to-a-pull-request-branch-created-from-a-fork)) \
> \
> If you use this Action in combination with a linter/fixer, it's easier if you run the Action on `push` on your `main`-branch.
> **If you use this Action in combination with a linter/fixer, it's easier if you run the Action on `push` on your `main`-branch.**
> **Warning**
> Due to limitations of GitHub, this Action currently can't push commits to a base repository, if the fork _lives_ under an organisation. See [github/community#6634](https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/5634) and [this comment](https://github.com/stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action/issues/211#issuecomment-1428849944) for details.
By default, this Action will not run on Pull Requests which have been opened by forks. (This is a limitation by GitHub, not by us.)
However, there are a couple of ways to use this Actions in Workflows that should be triggered by forked repositories.
@ -312,10 +315,19 @@ on:
jobs:
php-cs-fixer:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
permissions:
contents: write
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v3
with:
# Checkout the fork/head-repository and push changes to the fork.
# If you skip this, the base repository will be checked out and changes
# will be committed to the base repository!
repository: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name }}
# Checkout the branch made in the fork. Will automatically push changes
# back to this branch.
ref: ${{ github.head_ref }}
- name: Run php-cs-fixer
@ -326,6 +338,11 @@ jobs:
### Workflow should run in **forked** repository
> **Warning**
> **This part of the documentation is outdated.**
> We were not able to configure a GitHub Action workflow for forks, that the workflow would run in the fork / head repository.
> Please let us know in the [discussions](https://github.com/stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action/discussions)-area, if and how you achieved that.
If the workflow should run in the forked repository, follow these steps:
1. In addition to listening to the `pull_request` event in your Workflow triggers, you have to add an additional event: `pull_request_target`. You can learn more about this event in [the GitHub docs](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/events-that-trigger-workflows#pull_request_target).
@ -380,7 +397,7 @@ For more information about running Actions on forks, see [this announcement from
If you would like to use this Action to create a commit using [`--amend`](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit#Documentation/git-commit.txt---amend) and [`--no-edit`](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit#Documentation/git-commit.txt---no-edit) you need to make some adjustments.
> **Warning**
> **Warning**
> You should understand the implications of rewriting history if you amend a commit that has already been published. [See rebasing](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-rebase#_recovering_from_upstream_rebase).
First, you need to extract the previous commit message by using `git log -1 --pretty=%s`.