Fix github action, posts were not ordered by date

Get post dates from the front matter metadata instead of git log, and also avoiding xargs, which are probably causing the error
madacol · Jul 6, 2024 · 875aac0 · 875aac0
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commit 875aac0
Showing 1 changed file with 16 additions and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/bin/index.sh b/bin/index.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
+set -e
+
 # Construct the index.html file
 
 echo "Generating index.html"
@@ -35,10 +37,22 @@ htmlDoc="<!DOCTYPE html>
 </head>
 <body>
 "
+# Initialize an empty array to store the files
+date_files=()
+
+# Iterate over the arguments passed to the script
+for file in "$@"
+do
+  date=$(sed -n '/^---$/,/^---$/p' "$file" | sed -n 's/^date: //p')
+
+  # Append the file and its latest commit date to the files array
+  date_files+=("$date $file")
+done
 
-mapfile -t files < <(git ls-files -z "$@" | xargs -0 -I{} sh -c 'git log --follow --format="%ad {}" --date=short -- "{}" | tail -n 1' | sort -r | cut -d' ' -f2-)
+# Sort the files array in reverse order based on the commit date
+mapfile -t sorted_files < <(printf '%s\n' "${date_files[@]}" | sort -r | cut -d ' ' -f 2-)
 
-for inputFile in "${files[@]}";
+for inputFile in "${sorted_files[@]}"
 do
     echo "Parsing \"$inputFile\""