How to clone private repo into docker buildx action?

[ErikOsinga]

Hi,

Forgive me for my ignorance if this is a weird way to go about it (I am just recently getting familiar with both Docker and Github workflows), but I am interested in using this GitHub action inside a workflow that builds and pushes a Docker image, to clone a private repository.

The way I hope it would work is something like:

1. Run the GuillaumeFalourd/clone-github-repo-action@v2.3 action to git clone the private repository
2. Somehow access that private repository within the docker/setup-buildx-action@v1 action and simply copy it over to the docker image like ADD ./PrivateRepo ./

Would something like this be possible using this action?

Thanks in advance,
Erik

[GuillaumeFalourd]

Hi @ErikOsinga , how are you doing?

I don't really know about the docker/setup-buildx-action@v1 action (I checked they don't seem to use any path as input), but once you've clone a repo with the GuillaumeFalourd/clone-github-repo-action@v2.3 action, you should be able to access its content through a cd <repo-name> command line, to perform anything you want.

Now, from what I understand, you may want to separate the behavior in 2 workflows:

• One workflow in the private repo using docker/setup-buildx-action@v1 that would trigger on: push
• Another workflow anywhere you want using GuillaumeFalourd/clone-github-repo-action@v2.3 to clone this private repo, perform some changes on the file, and push the update commit back to the repo. When concluding this workflow, the first one would be triggered.