[Feature Request]: Support GitHub repositories with additional code defined e.g GitHub Actions (by specifying a path prefix)

[verysamuel]

Current behaviour

Publii is pointed to a branch and it entirely overwrites that branch.

Use case and dsired outcome

I have some workflows defined in a .github folder which I would like to run upon syncing my site. This means that my custom folder needs to not be deleted by the commit from Publii, because if it is deleted, my code doesn't run.

Proposal

Allow the user to specify a path prefix (i.e folder) into which the site will be uploaded. Default to current behaviour. This would solve my problem as the specified subfolder can live along side my other files.

There are alternative solutions such as keeping track of Publii files and ignoring others. I feel solution like that would have a greater potential to introduce problems.

If desired, I can have a look at putting a PR up for this change.

[verysamuel]

I have figured out a workaround which is to put the .github folder in the root-files directory so it will be uploaded with everything else.

This workaround is not exactly ideal because it couples updates to the custom code with updates to the website.

[dziudek]

Hi,

At this moment it is the only simple solution. If it is a critical to you - you can consider using git submodules, and then put your config in one repository which uses other repository with website content as submodule