master' is already used, There is nothing to commit

[qishibo]

I want to update my README.md directly in master but failed
my yaml file like bellow

name: Generate Sponsors README
on:
  push
permissions:
  contents: write
jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout 🛎️
        uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: Generate Sponsors 💖
        uses: JamesIves/github-sponsors-readme-action@v1
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.PAT }}
          file: 'README.md'
          template: '<a href="https://github.com/{{ login }}"><img src="{{ avatarUrl }}" width="60px" alt="{{ name }}" style="border-radius: 50%;" /></a>'

      - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages 🚀
        uses: JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-action@v4
        with:
          branch: master
          folder: '.'

but I got a fetal error fatal: 'master' is already used and finally There is nothing to commit. Exiting early…, so I am quite confused about this, is there any issues in my yaml file?
Tips: runs in https://github.com/qishibo/github-action-test/actions/runs/11495236537/job/31994328587

fatal: 'master' is already used by worktree at '/home/runner/work/github-action-test/github-action-test'
Error encountered while checking out branch. Attempting to continue with a new branch name.
/usr/bin/git checkout -B temp-1729757429936 origin/master
Switched to a new branch 'temp-1729757429936'
branch 'temp-1729757429936' set up to track 'origin/master'.
/usr/bin/git config --global --add safe.directory /home/runner/work/github-action-test/github-action-test/github-pages-deploy-action-temp-deployment-folder
/usr/bin/chmod -R +rw /home/runner/work/github-action-test/github-action-test
/usr/bin/rsync -q -av --checksum --progress /home/runner/work/github-action-test/github-action-test/. github-pages-deploy-action-temp-deployment-folder --delete --exclude CNAME --exclude .nojekyll --exclude .ssh --exclude .git --exclude .github --exclude github-pages-deploy-action-temp-deployment-folder
Checking if there are files to commit…
Running post deployment cleanup jobs… 🗑️
/usr/bin/git checkout -B github-pages-deploy-action/o0risvqez
Switched to a new branch 'github-pages-deploy-action/o0risvqez'
/usr/bin/chmod -R +rw github-pages-deploy-action-temp-deployment-folder
/usr/bin/git worktree remove github-pages-deploy-action-temp-deployment-folder --force
There is nothing to commit. Exiting early… 📭

[JamesIves]

Can you log what README.md file looks like between the generate sponsors job and the deploy job? If there's no content between the markers it's likely the scope of your personal access token causing the failure. If there is, we'll likely need to debug the deployment step instead.

[qishibo]

@JamesIves I don't think casued by PAT, I've gave almost all permissions.
here is my README.md

and I can't see what's the result of the final README, but it show successfully

but I got a fetal error like this, is this the reason?

[JamesIves]

Can you run cat README.md right before the deployment job runs and see if the actual README file is updated by searching for the sponsor flags? This isn't always exactly an error as the action should recover from this, so I want to verify if that early exit is valid or not.

Something like this:

      - name: Generate Sponsors 💖
        uses: JamesIves/github-sponsors-readme-action@v1
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.PAT }}
          file: 'README.md'
          template: '<a href="https://github.com/{{ login }}"><img src="{{ avatarUrl }}" width="60px" alt="{{ name }}" style="border-radius: 50%;" /></a>'
    
     - name: Read README
     - run: |
        cat README.md

      - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages 🚀
        uses: JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-action@v4
        with:
          branch: master
          folder: '.'

Something I'd like to add in a future update is a log here that shows how much sponsor data the action retrieves to make this sort of debugging easier 🤔

[qishibo]

all works well after I added active-only: false
because I've no activate sponsors except past sponsors

Thx!

[JamesIves]

Ah yeah this was my suspicion. I pushed a patch version for the action over the weekend that now logs how many sponsors it finds that matches your configuration to hopefully make this clearer 😄 - Looks something like this in the action log:

Checking configuration and initializing… 🚚
Fetching data from the GitHub API as User… ⚽
Generating updated README.md file… 📁
Generating template… ✨
Found 18 matching sponsors… 🎉
The data was successfully retrieved and saved! ✅ 💖

[qishibo]

what's more I want to know if I can set the avator to round? my custom style style="border-radius: 50%;" lossed in markdown parsing

[JamesIves]

There's all sorts of styling techniques with GitHub markdown, but I don't believe border-radius is a valid one unfortunately as GitHub throws out any style tags.