This is my first time using git actions. I want to create different filetypes of the same text using pandoc. Since I'm using free runtime for this (and there may be more actions to come) I want to keep the runtime as minimal as possible. Here is my git action:
name: conditional_convert_via_pandoc
on:
push:
branches:
- 'main' # Do the work exclusively for the deploying branch
jobs:
condition_check_files:
runs-on: 'ubuntu-22.04'
# Declare outputs for next jobs
outputs:
bool_files_changed: ${{ steps.check_file_changed.outputs.bool_files_changed }}
list_changed_files: ${{ steps.check_file_changed.outputs.list_changed_files }}
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
with:
fetch-depth: 1
# change to (thx to @mb21): fetch-depth: 2
- shell: pwsh
id: check_file_changed
run: |
# Look only for changed files (A - added, M - modified) and return their names (the specific changes are irrelevant)
$diff = git diff --name-only --diff-filter=AM HEAD^ HEAD
# Filter the files under content/ with the .md extension excluding the Hugo associated _index.md files
$SourceDiff = $diff | Where-Object { $_ -match 'content/' -and $_ -match '.md$' -and -not ($_ -match '_index.md') }
$HasDiff = $SourceDiff.Length -gt 0
# Set the output named "bool_files_changed"
echo "{bool_files_changed}={$HasDiff}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
echo "{list_changed_files}={$SourceDiff}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
# Run the job only with 'bool_files_changed' equals 'True'
conditional_pandoc:
runs-on: 'ubuntu-22.04'
needs: [ condition_check_files ]
if: needs.condition_check_files.outputs.bool_files_changed == 'True'
steps:
- uses: docker://pandoc/latex:3.5
- shell: pwsh
run: |
# List types which will only use --standalone. You can easily add more extensions if you're fine with this setting
$ONLY_STANDALONE_OUTPUT_TYPES = "latex pdf html docx odt"
# Use as many cores as available to be as fast as possible
parallel --jobs 0 \
# Pandoc creates an AST (Abstract Syntax Tree); reuse this by saving to/reading from .ast
pandoc --from markdown {} --to native -o {.}.ast ';'\
for i in $ONLY_STANDALONE_OUTPUT_TYPES';' do \
pandoc --from native {.}.ast --standalone -o '{.}.$i' ';' \
done';' \
# You can easily add individual conversion rules by using pandoc after the 'done' part. Keep in mind to finish all non-comment lines with backslash
rm {.}.ast ::: needs.condition_changed_files.outputs.list_changed_files
but this fails on $diff = git diff --name-only --diff-filter=AM HEAD^ HEAD
(code was based on Gérald Barré's example) with ambiguous argument 'HEAD^'
. I don't get why this is a problem, since the action only works on a push in a quite worked on repo, so there should be enough history
I tried putting HEAD^ in double quotation marks (according to this post) but it failes nonetheless.
Since I can't get past this error I don't know if the rest works, so any comments on that are gladly welcomed
Thanks to @mb21 the issue was detected: Simply use fetch-depth: 2