I want to create a github action that creates a new docker build and starts it up when something is pushed in the main branch. But the problem is that I set the working dir of the actions-runner to ~/action-runner/_work/. My Bot with the dockerfile and docker-compose.yml are located in ~/football-minigame/

How can I solve this problem so the runner puts the file in the ~/football-minigame/ directory so I can stop the bot and restart it with the new code?

Here is my action.yml

name: Deploy Bot

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: self-hosted

    steps:
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: Change dir
        run: cd ~/football-minigame

      - name: Stop Bot
        run: |
          docker-compose down

      - name: Building and pushing image
        run: |
          docker-compose build

      - name: Start the bot
        run: |
          docker-compose up -d

Is it a possible solution to put the dockerfile and the docker-compose.yml to github so the action runner pulls them with? Also what is with config files? can I let them in the main branch or does the runner doesn’t overwrite them?

I tried googling and fixing the problem with my known resources