docs_clean.yml

name: Docs Cleanup CI

# delete branch documentation when a branch is deleted
# also allow manually deleting a documentation version
on:
  delete:
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      version:
        description: "documentation version to DELETE"
        required: true
        type: string

jobs:
  remove:
    if: github.event.ref_type == 'branch' || github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch'
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          ref: gh-pages

      - name: removing documentation for branch ${{ github.event.ref }}
        if: ${{ github.event_name != 'workflow_dispatch' }}
        run: echo "REF_NAME=${{ github.event.ref }}" >> $GITHUB_ENV

      - name: manually removing documentation version ${{ github.event.inputs.version }}
        if: ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' }}
        run: echo "REF_NAME=${{ github.event.inputs.version }}" >> $GITHUB_ENV

      - name: Sanitize ref name for docs version
        run: echo "DOCS_VERSION=${REF_NAME//[^A-Za-z0-9._-]/_}" >> $GITHUB_ENV

      - name: update index and push changes
        run: |
          rm -r $DOCS_VERSION
          python make_switcher.py --remove $DOCS_VERSION ${{ github.repository }} switcher.json
          git config --global user.name 'GitHub Actions Docs Cleanup CI'
          git config --global user.email 'GithubActionsCleanup@noreply.github.com'
          git commit -am "Removing redundant docs version $DOCS_VERSION"
          git push