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DevOps

Push and update files in GitHub

GitHub
Nodes 2
Complexity Basic
Category DevOps
n8n popularity 4,976 views in n8n library

This workflow performs various Git operations. It starts with a manual trigger, sets the local repository path, decodes a file and then updates a file's content, adds, commits, and pushes changes to a GitHub repository, and finally pulls changes. The upper branch of the workflow retrieves a specific file ("README.md") from a GitHub repository ("git_push_article") owned by "teds-tech-talks." It then decodes the file's binary data into readable text using a code node. The decoded content is used to update the file by adding a timestamp and data. Finally, the modified file is pushed back to the repository using a GitHub node, completing the process of editing and updating the file directly via the workflow. This bottom branch of the workflow makes changes to a local Git repository. It starts by updating the "README.md" file with a timestamp and some content. Then, it adds the modified files, commits the changes with a message, and pushes them to a remote GitHub repository owned by "teds

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