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Issues2Markdown

Issues2Markdown #8719

Workflow file for this run

# .github/workflows/issues2md.yml
# https://github.com/mattduck/gh2md/issues/11
name: Issues2Markdown
on:
#push: # comment it to reduce update.
schedule:
# every day
#- cron: "0 0 * * *"
# every hour
- cron: "0 * * * *"
jobs:
build:
name: Backup github issues to markdown files
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Set output path
run: echo "GH2MD_OUTPUT_PATH=archive/github/issues/" >> $GITHUB_ENV
- name: Check output path
run: |
if ! [[ "$GH2MD_OUTPUT_PATH" =~ ^[a-zA-Z0-9_/.+~-]+$ ]]; then
echo "error: output path does not match the pattern ^[a-zA-Z0-9_/.+~-]+$"
exit 1
fi
- name: checkout
uses: actions/checkout@master
with:
persist-credentials: false # otherwise, the token used is the GITHUB_TOKEN, instead of your personal token
fetch-depth: 0 # otherwise, you will failed to push refs to dest repo
- name: Run gh2md
run: |
pip3 install --user --upgrade setuptools
pip3 install --user gh2md
export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
gh2md --version || true
export GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN=${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
# fix: RuntimeError: Output directory already exists and has files in it
git rm -rf $GH2MD_OUTPUT_PATH
# workaround for https://github.com/mattduck/gh2md/pull/31
mkdir -p $GH2MD_OUTPUT_PATH || true
gh2md $GITHUB_REPOSITORY $GH2MD_OUTPUT_PATH --idempotent --multiple-files --file-extension .ghmd
#sudo apt-get install pandoc # pandoc 2.5 == too old
# install nix to install pandoc 2.17
- name: install nix
uses: cachix/install-nix-action@master
with:
nix_path: nixpkgs=channel:nixos-unstable
- name: "pandoc: convert github-markdown to strict-markdown"
uses: workflow/nix-shell-action@main
with:
packages: pandoc
script: |
set -x
pandoc --version || true
find $GH2MD_OUTPUT_PATH -name '*.ghmd' -type f | while read path
do
base="${path%.*}"
pandoc --verbose -f gfm+hard_line_breaks -t markdown_strict "$base.ghmd" -o "$base.md"
done
- name: "cleanup: move .ghmd files to separate folder"
run: |
mkdir -p $GH2MD_OUTPUT_PATH/ghmd/
mv -v $GH2MD_OUTPUT_PATH*.ghmd $GH2MD_OUTPUT_PATH/ghmd/
- name: Commit files
run: |
git add $GH2MD_OUTPUT_PATH
git config --local user.email "[email protected]"
git config --local user.name "GitHub Action"
if ! git commit -m "up $GH2MD_OUTPUT_PATH" -a
then
echo nothing to commit
exit 0
fi
- name: Get branch name
shell: bash
run: echo "##[set-output name=branch;]$(echo ${GITHUB_REF#refs/heads/})"
id: get_branch
- name: Push changes
uses: ad-m/github-push-action@master
with:
github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
branch: ${{ steps.get_branch.outputs.branch }}