deploy.yaml

name: data-submission-guide-update
 
on:
  repository_dispatch:
    types: [data-submission-guide-update]
 
# Sets permissions of the GITHUB_TOKEN to allow deployment to GitHub Pages
permissions:
  contents: read
  pages: write
  pull-requests: write
  id-token: write

# Allow only one concurrent deployment, skipping runs queued between the run in-progress and latest queued.
# However, do NOT cancel in-progress runs as we want to allow these production deployments to complete.
concurrency:
  group: "pages"
  cancel-in-progress: false

jobs:
  update:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2

        # Uses the private access token from above link
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GH_SUBMODULE_SECRET }}

      # Initialize or update each one recursively
      - name: Pull & update submodules recursively
        run: |
          git submodule update --init --recursive
          git submodule update --recursive --remote

      # Commit to the repo under the GitHub actions user to ensure we have
      # reasonable logging to trace back
      - name: Commit & push changes
        run: |
          git config --global user.email "actions@github.com"
          git config --global user.name "GitHub Actions - update submodules"
          git commit -am "Update submodules" || echo "No changes to commit"
          git push