Custom committer support (#264)

* feat: add support for a custom committer

* chore: update build

* chore: remove redundant code

The author is correctly set by the git config (line 40)

* docs: add new feature docs

* docs(README): add example use of committer info

Closes #265

README.md

@@ -13,25 +13,33 @@ This action lets you choose the path that you want to use when adding & committi
 Add a step like this to your workflow:
 
 ```yaml
-- uses: EndBug/add-and-commit@v7 # You can change this to use a specific version
+- uses: EndBug/add-and-commit@v7 # You can change this to use a specific version.
   with:
     # The arguments for the `git add` command (see the paragraph below for more info)
     # Default: '.'
     add: 'src'
 
-    # The name of the user that will be displayed as the author of the commit
+    # The name of the user that will be displayed as the author of the commit.
     # Default: depends on the default_author input
-    author_name: Your Name
+    author_name: Author Name
 
-    # The email of the user that will be displayed as the author of the commit
+    # The email of the user that will be displayed as the author of the commit.
     # Default: depends on the default_author input
     author_email: mail@example.com
 
-    # Name of the branch to use, if different from the one that triggered the workflow
+    # The name of the branch to use, if different from the one that triggered the workflow.
     # Default: the branch that triggered the run
     branch: some-branch
 
-    # The local path to the directory where your repository is located. You should use actions/checkout first to set it up
+    # The name of the custom committer you want to use, if different from the author of the commit.
+    # Default: the name of the author (set with either author_name or default_author)
+    committer_name: Committer Name
+
+    # The email of the custom committer you want to use, if different from the author of the commit.
+    # Default: the email of the author (set with either author_email or default_author)
+    committer_email: mail@example.com
+
+    # The local path to the directory where your repository is located. You should use actions/checkout first to set it up.
     # Default: '.'
     cwd: './path/to/the/repo'
 
@@ -42,7 +50,7 @@ Add a step like this to your workflow:
     # Default: github_actor
     default_author: github_actor
 
-    # The message for the commit
+    # The message for the commit.
     # Default: 'Commit from GitHub Actions (name of the workflow)'
     message: 'Your commit message'
 
@@ -144,6 +152,30 @@ jobs:
           default_author: github_actions
 ```
 
+You can also use the `committer_name` and `committer_email` inputs to make it appear as if GitHub Actions is the committer, here are a couple of example steps:
+
+<img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/26386270/130594168-1d910710-e2d0-4b06-9324-cbe5dde59154.png" height=70/>
+
+```yaml
+- uses: EndBug/add-and-commit@v7
+  with:
+    message: Show GitHub Actions logo
+    committer_name: GitHub Actions
+    committer_email: actions@github.com
+```
+
+
+<img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/26386270/130594443-b881fae7-3064-4020-a4cc-6db37ef0df65.png" height=70/>
+
+```yaml
+- uses: EndBug/add-and-commit@v7
+  with:
+    message: Show GitHub logo
+    committer_name: GitHub Actions
+    committer_email: 41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com
+```
+
+
 Do you want to lint your JavaScript files, located in the `src` folder, with ESLint, so that fixable changes are done without your intervention? You can use a workflow like this:
 
 ```yaml
@@ -206,6 +238,8 @@ jobs:
           cwd: './pathToRepo/'
 ```
 
+
+
 ## Contributors ✨
 
 Thanks goes to these wonderful people ([emoji key](https://allcontributors.org/docs/en/emoji-key)):

action.yml

@@ -15,6 +15,12 @@ inputs:
   branch:
     description: Name of the branch to use, if different from the one that triggered the workflow
     required: false
+  committer_name:
+    description: The name of the custom committer you want to use
+    required: false 
+  committer_email:
+    description: The email of the custom committer you want to use
+    required: false
   cwd:
     description: The directory where your repository is located. You should use actions/checkout first to set it up
     required: false

package-lock.json

@@ -748,7 +748,6 @@
     "node_modules/actions-toolkit": {
       "version": "6.0.1",
       "resolved": "git+ssh://git@github.com/EndBug/actions-toolkit.git#50bcf238178fb66d1448ae29b741641406e5a1a0",
-      "integrity": "sha512-551oLndgEeSLzp15qjwjKBUS5gPhggPhI6kMQKDEHju7Bgp1NL8l8S7I9gQtYXe8frgp75kYZPWM+NA79E/s5g==",
       "license": "MIT",
       "dependencies": {
         "@actions/core": "^1.2.6",
@@ -3944,8 +3943,7 @@
     },
     "actions-toolkit": {
       "version": "git+ssh://git@github.com/EndBug/actions-toolkit.git#50bcf238178fb66d1448ae29b741641406e5a1a0",
-      "integrity": "sha512-551oLndgEeSLzp15qjwjKBUS5gPhggPhI6kMQKDEHju7Bgp1NL8l8S7I9gQtYXe8frgp75kYZPWM+NA79E/s5g==",
-      "from": "actions-toolkit@github:EndBug/actions-toolkit#50bcf238178fb66d1448ae29b741641406e5a1a0",
+      "from": "actions-toolkit@github:EndBug/actions-toolkit#core-actions",
       "requires": {
         "@actions/core": "^1.2.6",
         "@actions/exec": "^1.0.4",

src/main.ts

@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ core.info(`Running in ${baseDir}`)
     await git
       .addConfig('user.email', getInput('author_email'), undefined, log)
       .addConfig('user.name', getInput('author_name'), undefined, log)
+      .addConfig('author.email', getInput('author_email'), undefined, log)
+      .addConfig('author.name', getInput('author_name'), undefined, log)
+      .addConfig('committer.email', getInput('committer_email'), undefined, log)
+      .addConfig('committer.name', getInput('committer_name'), undefined, log)
     core.debug(
       '> Current git config\n' +
         JSON.stringify((await git.listConfig()).all, null, 2)
@@ -75,9 +79,6 @@ core.info(`Running in ${baseDir}`)
       getInput('message'),
       undefined,
       {
-        '--author': `"${getInput('author_name')} <${getInput(
-          'author_email'
-        )}>"`,
         ...(getInput('signoff')
           ? {
               '--signoff': null
@@ -238,6 +239,7 @@ async function checkInputs() {
         ', '
       )}`
     )
+  // #endregion
 
   // #region author_name, author_email
   let name, email
@@ -289,6 +291,25 @@ async function checkInputs() {
   )
   // #endregion
 
+  // #region committer_name, committer_email
+  if (getInput('committer_name') || getInput('committer_email'))
+    core.info(
+      `> Using custom committer info: ${
+        getInput('committer_name') ||
+        getInput('author_name') + ' [from author info]'
+      } <${
+        getInput('committer_email') ||
+        getInput('author_email') + ' [from author info]'
+      }>`
+    )
+
+  setDefault('committer_name', getInput('author_name'))
+  setDefault('committer_email', getInput('author_email'))
+  core.debug(
+    `Committer: ${getInput('committer_name')} <${getInput('committer_email')}>`
+  )
+  // #endregion
+
   // #region message
   setDefault(
     'message',
@@ -349,6 +370,7 @@ async function checkInputs() {
     core.warning(
       'No github_token has been detected, the action may fail if it needs to use the API'
     )
+  // #endregion
 }
 
 async function add({ logWarning = true, ignoreErrors = false } = {}): Promise<

src/util.ts

@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ export type Input =
   | 'author_name'
   | 'author_email'
   | 'branch'
+  | 'committer_name'
+  | 'committer_email'
   | 'cwd'
   | 'default_author'
   | 'message'