Silverbullet Push

Hey everyone,

So recently I talked about the Git plug for Silverbullet and backing up my notes into Github. This has worked amazingly and I wanted to add the ability to make draft webpage that would be sent to my Hugo repository.

I wanted to be able to make notes and the draft on Silverbullet and push that to Github without it firing off a pipeline but, when added to a certain folder, it will fire off a pipeline to push to my remote repository.

To start, I opened the actions tab and went to create a custom workflow. I wanted to open push if the file was in a certain directory in my repository, so I started with

on:
  push:
    paths:
      ['drafts/*']
  workflow_dispatch:

This meant only files added to the drafts folder within my Git: Sync from Silverbullet would be pushed to my Hugo host Github Repository. The next part was to add the job

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on:ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Run a Git push

With the job created, I could start with the commands that I wanted the Ubuntu runner to do. First, I had to define an environment variable to point to my PAT. Then I had to remove the original .git instance on the runner, git init a new one and git pull the remote repository of the Hugo host.

env:
            token : ${{ secrets.token}}
        run: |
          rm -rf .git
          git init
          git remote add origin https://$token@github.com/captainstinkrat/captainstinkrat.github.io.git 
          git config --global user.name "captainstinkrat"
          git config --global user.email "tatejonathan182@gmail.com"
          git checkout -b $GITHUB_RUN_ID
          git add drafts
          git commit -m "$GITHUB_RUN_ID"
          git pull --rebase=true origin main --allow-unrelated-histories
          git push --set-upstream https://$token@github.com/captainstinkrat/captainstinkrat.github.io.git $GITHUB_RUN_ID

With that done, I could test. I started with this very draft of this post within Silverbullet under no folder. I think renamed the file to include the drafts folder and last did my Git: Sync command to sync the file.