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fix: stop mike from writing symlinks into gh-pages, breaking Pages deploy #18

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8 changes: 7 additions & 1 deletion build.gradle.kts
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Expand Up @@ -265,7 +265,13 @@ tasks {
group = "publishing"
val tag = rootProject.version.toString().substringBeforeLast(".")
workingDir = rootDir
commandLine("mike", "deploy", "--push", "--update-aliases", tag, "latest")
// --alias-type redirect: mike's default ("symlink") writes the "latest" alias as an
// actual symlink into the gh-pages branch, which GitHub's own automatic Pages
// build-and-deploy (triggered whenever gh-pages is pushed, separate from this task)
// rejects outright ("content does not contain any hard links, symlinks"). "redirect"
// makes the alias a small HTML redirect page instead - no symlink, same effect for
// visitors.
commandLine("mike", "deploy", "--push", "--update-aliases", "--alias-type", "redirect", tag, "latest")
}
// modpublisher's changelog reads CHANGELOG.md straight off disk when a publish task runs - it
// doesn't know about git tags or PRs. .github/workflows/release-notes.yaml (reactive, post-tag)
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