Add exclude directories option

[pavletto]

Hello. I want to thank you for this useful action. I'm trying to use it to create website github pages for our project.

While working on it, I encountered that when I try to update the repository root, some directories that I also created with this action get overwritten (similar to the problem in this issue).

So I added the ability to select which directories to exclude from the rewriting process with the exclude-directories parameter.I do this with the git restore command

I also added removing .git directories from nested directories, because if you don't, they will look like git submodules. You may have done this in some special way, and I should do it some other way.

I hope these changes will be helpful

[cpina]

Hi @pavletto

Thanks for the PR!

Question: could you achieve the same using this other approach? https://cpina.github.io/push-to-another-repository-docs/faq.html#how-can-i-copy-only-some-files-only-some-directories-exclude-some-files-etc

[pavletto]

Case in FAQ actural for overriding folders in source repository. But my case - overriding in destination repo by other github-action-push-to-another-repository. I have 3 repo and your action build all content after building in one destination. But one of that has target (target-directory: .) on root and action from this repo override another targets in destination repo. and changes in my pr help to prevent that.

[Svaught598]

@cpina I'm facing this same issue and this would solve it for me. Are there any issues with this PR that I could help out with?

edit: Not sure if it helps, but I setup my actions to run pavletto/github-action-push-to-another-repository@test in my build action with the new exclude-directories argument, and everything is working swimmingly. That said, I'd love to switch back over to this action. I really appreciate all of the work you've done here, and if there is any way I could help contribute, please let me know!

[Svaught598]

This could probably be changed to say something like

ignore-directories:
  description: '[Optional] whitespace delimited set of directories to ignore.'

It feels like a different naming makes it more obvious that the directories will be ignored in the overall process.

[alexbowers]

I had a similar issue where I wanted to exclude a lot. The workaround I used in the end was to simply use a .gitignore in the destination repository. This keeps it within standard tooling