Reverts to bare git calls

This work around AndreasAugustin/actions-template-sync#484

.github/workflows/docs.yaml

@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ jobs:
  # We need custom PAT through the whole job so we get workflow permissions to update all the boilerplate .github
  # files from awesome-template.
  steps:
- - uses: actions/checkout@v4.1.1
+ - name: Initial checkout
+ uses: actions/checkout@v4.1.1
  with:
  token: ${{ secrets.WORKFLOW_UPDATE_GITHUB_PAT || secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
  - name: Sync from template repo
@@ -31,20 +32,25 @@ jobs:
  with:
  github_token: ${{ secrets.WORKFLOW_UPDATE_GITHUB_PAT || secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
  source_repo_path: kdeldycke/awesome-template
- pr_title: "[sync] Updates from `awesome-template` repository"
- pr_commit_msg: "[sync] Updates from `awesome-template` repository"
+ pr_title: "[sync] Updates from `awesome-template`"
+ pr_commit_msg: "[sync] Updates from `awesome-template`"
  pr_branch_name_prefix: "sync-awesome-template"
  pr_labels: "📚 documentation"
 
  - name: Print PR branch ID
  run: |
  echo "PR branch ID: ${{ steps.template_sync.outputs.pr_branch }}"
 
- - name: Checkout template sync PR
+ - name: Checkout new template sync branch
  uses: actions/checkout@v4.1.1
  with:
- ref: ${{ steps.template_sync.outputs.pr_branch }}
  token: ${{ secrets.WORKFLOW_UPDATE_GITHUB_PAT || secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+ ref: ${{ steps.template_sync.outputs.pr_branch }}
+
+ # XXX We cannot rely on peter-evans/create-pull-request to manage the push of the new commit to the PR, as it
+ # ends up with a: "Unexpected error: fatal: could not open '.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG': Permission denied".
+ # See: https://github.com/AndreasAugustin/actions-template-sync/issues/484
+ # So we manage the next steps with bare git calls.
 
  - name: List commits
  run: |
@@ -60,20 +66,25 @@ jobs:
  run: |
  git diff
 
- - uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v6.0.1
- with:
- token: ${{ secrets.WORKFLOW_UPDATE_GITHUB_PAT || secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
- assignees: ${{ github.actor }}
- commit-message: "[sync] Updates from `awesome-template`"
- title: "[sync] Updates from `awesome-template`"
- body: >
- <details><summary><code>Workflow metadata</code></summary>
+ - name: Setup Git user
+ run: |
+ git config --global user.name "${{ github.actor }}"
+ git config --global user.email "${{ github.actor }}@users.noreply.github.com"
 
+ - name: Deactivate LFS
+ # XXX Was introduced in https://github.com/AndreasAugustin/actions-template-sync/commit/5335a55
+ run: |
+ git config lfs.https://github.com/kdeldycke/${{ github.event.repository.name }}.git/info/lfs.locksverify false
 
-  > [Auto-generated on run `#${{ github.run_id }}`](${{ github.event.repository.html_url }}/actions/runs/${{
-  github.run_id }}) by `${{ github.job }}` job from [`docs.yaml`](${{ github.event.repository.html_url
-  }}/blob/${{ github.sha }}/.github/workflows/docs.yaml) workflow.
+ - name: Create commit
+ run: |
+ git commit --all --message'Update template URLs with local ones'
 
+ - name: Squash commits
+ run: |
+ git reset --soft $(git merge-base main HEAD)
+ git commit --message "[sync] Updates from `awesome-template`"
 
- </details>
- branch: ${{ needs.awesome-template-sync.outputs.pr_branch }}
+ - name: Push commit to PR
+ run: |
+ git push --force