Currently, when the action is checked out, it checks out from the base directory which may include sub modules that are not in the new_branch_ref branch and it does not clean that history. This creates issues onwards.

Hey again 👋

I've really been enjoying your github action and have used it in combination with other actions.

One requirement that I currently have is I need to use SSH deploy keys instead of PAT.

I have an implementation that I tested on a dummy repo which is working fine.
Here are some links to those dummy repos:

• https://github.com/ddymko/repo-a/blob/v3.0.0-rc.3/.github/workflows/release.yml
• https://github.com/ddymko/repo-a/actions/runs/3193141290
• https://github.com/ddymko/repo-b/blob/rel/v3.0.0/version I realized I made this private in order to test the deploy key functionality

You can find my implementation here:
https://github.com/ddymko/create-other-repo-branch-action/blob/ssh-keys-deploy/action.yml#L31

I changed the conditional logic for cloning a bit. The flow is as

• If access_token and ssh_deploy_key are defined: error
• if access_token is set: clone with access token
• if ssh_deploy_key is set: clone using ssh key
• if neither acces_token or ssh_deploy_key are set: do a basic clone

The other GHA I am using is https://github.com/cpina/github-action-push-to-another-repository which alraedy supports SSH deploy keys which is where I borrowed some of the code to add support in for your action.

Let me know if this is something you are open to allowing for in your GHA!

Currently, if an existing branch exists, then it will end the run

| Error: The branch name v0.0.2 is already used.
[Run/build]   ❌  Failure - Main Create new branch
[Run/build] exitcode '1': failure
[Run/build]   ❌  Failure - Main ddymko/create-other-repo-branch-action@updates3
[Run/build] exitcode '1': failure

It would be nice if we could add in a new input parameter that would allow a graceful exit so that our flow could continue.

The solution I am currently testing is as follows:

        if ${{ inputs.ignore_branch_exists }} && [ ! -z $(git branch --remotes --list 'origin/${{ inputs.new_branch_name }}') ]; then
            echo "[INFO] Branch ${{ inputs.new_branch_ref }} already exists. Skipping branch creation"
            exit 0
        fi

The other option is to augment the existing branch check. I am happy to submit a PR with what I have if you are open to the suggestion!

Trying to test this action however when running the workflow, I get the following error message:

I've tried different ways to get this to work such as specifying the git username and email. setting the GH_TOKEN at the global workflow level and running actions/checkout@v3 but no luck. any advice here?