GitHub Actions: Automatically fill in blog post date after merge #166
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After merging a new blog post into the
website
branch, this automatically updates the blog post date to the commit date of the merge commit if the filename starts withXXXX-XX-XX-
or2020-XX-XX
. It renames the file and updates thedate:
entry, then commits and pushes the changes automatically.Afterwards, it automatically triggers a redeploy on Netlify if the
NETLIFY_BUILD_HOOK
secret is defined: https://docs.netlify.com/configure-builds/build-hooks/(git pushes from GitHub don't trigger web hooks automatically to prevent endless loops)
Therefore, we don't have to keep up with bumping the dates manually all the time.