diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1b8c057..0d61571 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -39,6 +39,13 @@ Because of the nice community, several feature requests helped to go on with the
 
 ## Features
 
+This action is creating a pull request with the latest changes within the target repo whenever it runs with following exceptions
+
+* there is already an open PR created with the latest changes of the source repository.
+  * if there are new changes and a PR is already open, a new PR will be created (option to clean up older PRs)
+* related new changes are ignored within the `.templatesyncignore` file
+* the source repository is fully included within the target repository
+
 ```mermaid
 flowchart LR
     github_source("fa:fa-github <b>GitHub</b> source repository <b>[private|public]</b>")
@@ -89,7 +96,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
         # https://github.com/actions/checkout#usage
-        # uncomment if you use submodules within the source repository
+        # uncomment if you use submodules within the repository
         # with:
         #   submodules: true
 
@@ -119,14 +126,16 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
-     - name: Generate token to read from source repo # see: https://github.com/tibdex/github-app-token
+      - name: Generate token to read from source repo # see: https://github.com/tibdex/github-app-token
         id: generate_token
-        uses: tibdex/github-app-token@v1
+        # https://github.com/tibdex/github-app-token
+        uses: tibdex/github-app-token@v2
         with:
           app_id: ${{ secrets.APP_ID }}
           private_key: ${{ secrets.PRIVATE_KEY }}
 
       - name: Checkout
+        # https://github.com/actions/checkout#usage
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           # submodules: true
@@ -163,6 +172,7 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       # To use this repository's private action, you must check out the repository
       - name: Checkout
+        # https://github.com/actions/checkout#usage
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           # submodules: true
diff --git a/src/sync_template.sh b/src/sync_template.sh
index df0dfda..b24015e 100755
--- a/src/sync_template.sh
+++ b/src/sync_template.sh
@@ -357,8 +357,8 @@ function handle_templatesyncignore() {
   # we are checking the ignore file if it exists or is empty
   # -s is true if the file contains whitespaces
   if [ -s "${template_sync_ignore_file_path}" ]; then
-    debug "unstage files from template sync ignore"
-    git reset --pathspec-from-file="${template_sync_ignore_file_path}"
+    debug "unstage files from template sync ignore ${template_sync_ignore_file_path}"
+    < "${template_sync_ignore_file_path}" awk NF | xargs -r git reset --
 
     debug "clean untracked files"
     git clean -df