Back to commiting generated files to repository, but in separate folder.The idea of switching to artifacts was to separate the automatic output from the source code and only track changes made by users. However, I did not consider that the script efficiently only generates the output of changed files, such that we end up with artifacts that only contain recent changes, but not a snapshort of the current state of the db. The compromise now is to commit the generated files, but put them into a "generated" subdir, so it remains clear which files are source and which are automatically generated.

Author: Staacks

.github/workflows/conditional_convert_via_pandoc.yaml

@@ -62,14 +62,14 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           echo $list_changed_files
           bash ./pandoc.sh $list_changed_files
-#      - name: Commit files # transfer the new files into the repository
-#        run: |
-#          git config --local user.name "GH_Action_Bot"
-#          git add ./content
-#          git commit -m "GH Action: Pandoc | New output for changed files"
-#          git push -f origin main
-      - name: Save artifacts # Instead of 'Commit files'. Saves the files as .zip
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: pandoc-artifact
-          path: content/
+      - name: Commit files # transfer the new files into the repository
+        run: |
+          git config --local user.name "GH_Action_Bot"
+          git add ./content
+          git commit -m "GH Action: Pandoc | New output for changed files"
+          git push -f origin main
+#      - name: Save artifacts # Instead of 'Commit files'. Saves the files as .zip
+#        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+#        with:
+#          name: pandoc-artifact
+#          path: content/

pandoc-generator/pandoc-single.sh

@@ -4,28 +4,31 @@ Only_Standalone_Output_Types="latex docx odt"
 # Pandoc creates an AST (Abstract Syntax Tree); reuse this by saving/reading from .ast
 # You can add individual pandoc conversions by calling them after the 'done' part. Keep in mind to finish all lines with backslash
 
-BASE="${1%.*}"
 FILENAME=$(basename -- "$1")
 LOGID="${FILENAME%.*}"
 SUPPORTDIR=$(dirname "$0")
+SRCDIR=$(dirname "$1")
+OUTFILE="$SRCDIR/generated/$LOGID"
+
+mkdir -p "$SRCDIR/generated"
 
 echo "PANDOC Processing $1 as $LOGID"
 
-pandoc --from markdown+tex_math_single_backslash --to native "$1" -o "$BASE.ast"
+pandoc --from markdown+tex_math_single_backslash --to native "$1" -o "$OUTFILE.ast"
 for ext in ${Only_Standalone_Output_Types}; do
     echo "$LOGID Genrating $ext"
-    pandoc --from native "$BASE.ast" --standalone --pdf-engine=lualatex -o "$BASE.$ext"
+    pandoc --from native "$OUTFILE.ast" --standalone --pdf-engine=lualatex -o "$OUTFILE.$ext"
 done
 
 # HTML
 echo "$LOGID Generating pdf"
-pandoc --from native "$BASE.ast" --standalone --mathml -o "$BASE.html"; \
+pandoc --from native "$OUTFILE.ast" --standalone --mathml -o "$OUTFILE.html"; \
 
 # PDF
 echo "$LOGID Generating pdf"
-pandoc --from native "$BASE.ast" --standalone -H "$SUPPORTDIR/preamble.tex" --pdf-engine=pdflatex -o "$BASE.pdf"; \
+pandoc --from native "$OUTFILE.ast" --standalone -H "$SUPPORTDIR/preamble.tex" --pdf-engine=pdflatex -o "$OUTFILE.pdf"; \
 
 echo "$LOGID Cleaning up"
-rm "./$BASE.ast"
+rm "$OUTFILE.ast"
 
 echo "$LOGID Done."