What is github action all about?

action.md

This is an example of a github action that automatically merges master branch with production branch Use cases of this is wide:

1. Example is automatically running test on your source code and if they passed, you can automatically build the file and push it to production, and then deploy the production branch on an online server

Learn more about github actions here

name: Update Production

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master

permissions:
  # Need `contents: read` to checkout the repository
  # Need `contents: write` to merge branches
  contents: write

jobs:
  update-production:
    name: Merge master into production after a PR is merged
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0 # Let's get all the branches
      - name: Merge Master to Production branch
        uses: devvspaces/merge-branches@v1
        with:
          token: ${{ github.token }}
          from_branch: master
          to_branch: production