GitHub action to keep Github-Actions alive but with minimal dependencies.

This GitHub Action is inspired by gautamkrishnar/keepalive-workflow.

GitHub will stop running your actions after 60 days of no commit activity in your repository. After that your cron based jobs wil stop to run.

This Action helps you to avoid that :-)

It will run as a scheduled job and if the current repository is close to the 60 day limit (or whatever time limit you specify) the action will add an empty commit to the git repository.

1. Go to repository settings, Click on Actions > General. Update the "Workflow permissions" to "Read and write permissions". Click on save.

2.  name: Github Action with a cronjob trigger
    on:
        schedule:
            - cron: "0 0 * * *"
   
    jobs:
        cronjob-based-github-action:
            name: Cronjob based github action
            runs-on: ubuntu-latest
            steps:
                - uses: actions/checkout@v4
                # - steps
                - uses: entepotenz/keep-github-actions-alive-min-dependencies@v1

If you use the workflow as mentioned via GitHub actions following are the options available to you to customize its behavior.

Option	Default Value	Description	Required
COMMIT_MESSAGE	GitHub Action - Workflow keepalive	Commit message used while committing to the repo	No
COMMIT_USER_NAME	GitHub Action - Workflow keepalive	Username used while committing to the repo	No
COMMIT_USER_EMAIL	[email protected]	Email id used while committing to the repo	No
TIME_ELAPSED_THRESHOLD_IN_DAYS	50	threshold for inactivity in the git repo which triggers keep alive commit (in days)	No