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Clear History and Deploy Workflow

This GitHub Actions workflow is designed to automatically clear the commit history in your GitHub Pages repository and deploy the latest version of your site every day. The workflow is triggered by a scheduled cron job and performs the following steps:

  1. Checkout the current content from the repository.
  2. Remove old Git history to ensure a clean slate.
  3. Reinitialize the Git repository and set the necessary user configurations.
  4. Add and commit all files, pushing the latest content to the master branch of the GitHub Pages repository.

The cron job is set to run every day at 00:00 UTC to ensure that your site is up to date while keeping the commit history clean.


name: Clear History and Deploy

on:
  schedule:
    # Runs at 00:00 UTC every day
    - cron: '0 0 * * *'

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout the current content
        uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: Remove old Git history
        run: |
          rm -rf .git  # Removes the existing Git history          

      - name: Initialize new Git repository
        run: |
          git init
          git config user.name "Clear action"
          git config user.email "clear-action@example.com"          

      - name: Add all files
        run: |
          git add .
          git commit -m "Deploy latest version"
          git push -f https://github.com/username/reponame.git master # Replace with the actual repo and branch