Merge pull request #210 from pnnl/drgona-patch-1 #124
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| name: Automate Documentation Build #name of action | |
| on: #trigger event | |
| push: | |
| branches: | |
| - master #execute on a push to master branch | |
| permissions: | |
| contents: write #grant access to write to master branch | |
| jobs: #define set of jobs. Here there is only one job, each job is instantiated on a Github-hosted runner | |
| docs: #name of the job | |
| runs-on: ubuntu-latest #runner runs on latest version of Ubuntu | |
| steps: #this job is associated with a series of steps | |
| # step 1: syntax for telling GHA to use this repository's code as "root" directory. Rest of GHA is able to have access | |
| - uses: actions/checkout@v3 | |
| # step 2: #syntax for telling GHA to set-up Python on this runner associated for this whole job | |
| - uses: actions/setup-python@v3 | |
| # Step 3: define a step that install dependencies (Sphinx etc) for this runner | |
| - name: Install dependencies #name of this step | |
| run: | #indicate that following script is meant to be multi-line | |
| pip install sphinx sphinx_rtd_theme myst_parser | |
| # Step 4: Build docs using sphinx. TZ=UTC needed to circumvent a nuance of running Sphinx on GHA runner | |
| - name: Sphinx build | |
| run: | | |
| TZ=UTC sphinx-build docs html | |
| # Step 5: Deploy the newly built docs to gh-pages branch | |
| - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages | |
| #uses a github action "extension" called actions-gh-pages | |
| uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v3 | |
| if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' #ensure that we are on the master branch | |
| #following is syntax for using actions-gh-pages action | |
| with: | |
| publish_branch: gh-pages | |
| github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} | |
| publish_dir: html/ #docs to publish to html directory | |
| force_orphan: true #common command associated with deploying a GitHub Page |