Cloudflare Pages fetch-depth

[segg21]

I'm currently trying to figure out how with cloudflare pages to fix the fetch-depth issue. Cloudflare is automatically doing the deployment/pipeline without any github workflow files.

I'm not sure how to fix this issue so that file created timestamps are proper, not from last commit date.

Thanks!

[timvink]

Hi @segg21 ,

I am not familiar with cloudflare pages (https://pages.cloudflare.com/)

One thing you could do, is setup cloudflare pages to deploy your gh-pages branch, instead of the default branch.

Now you can use mkdocs gh-deploy --force (docs) locally to push the build to that branch automatically. You could also use github actions to build and push to gh-pages whenever you push to master/ main, see https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/publishing-your-site/?h=github+ac#with-github-actions (but make sure to change the git clone depth in that case). Note that mkdocs gh-deploy has an option to use a different branch name than gh-pages also.

If you really want to use cloudflare builds, I can't help you with that. I searched for you, I didn't find an option to specify clone depth.

[segg21]

Thanks. I ended up figuring out. I didn't want to use GitHub pages due to limitations, and the extra benefits CF pages provides.

[jdguillot]

@segg21 What ended up being your solution to this? I also am in the same situation and cannot find any documentation on how to change the fetch-depth for CF Pages.

[segg21]

@segg21 What ended up being your solution to this? I also am in the same situation and cannot find any documentation on how to change the fetch-depth for CF Pages.

Instead of CloudFlare automatically detecting updates, building, and publishing itself, I'm using GitHub actions (that does building w/ fetch-depth) and pushing site contents to CloudFlare using cloudflare/pages-action@v1

Here an example of the action I have setup.

You'll need to disable GitHub automation within CloudFlare's dashboard for your page.

[jdguillot]

@segg21 What ended up being your solution to this? I also am in the same situation and cannot find any documentation on how to change the fetch-depth for CF Pages.

Instead of CloudFlare automatically detecting updates, building, and publishing itself, I'm using GitHub actions (that does building w/ fetch-depth) and pushing site contents to CloudFlare using cloudflare/pages-action@v1

Here an example of the action I have setup.

You'll need to disable GitHub automation within CloudFlare's dashboard for your page.

That makes perfect sense. Thanks for all the info! I think I'll follow your lead on this and do something similar.

[fertek]

segg21's link to example doesn't work anymore, so I'm pasting here the contents of the .github/workflows/publish.yml file that works for me.

on: [push]

jobs:
  publish:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      contents: read
      deployments: write
    name: Publish to Cloudflare Pages
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

      # Run a build step here if your project requires
      - name: Set up Python
        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
        with:
          python-version: '3.x'  # Set up the Python version

      - name: Install dependencies
        run: |
          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
          pip install -r requirements.txt

      - name: Build the MkDocs site
        run: mkdocs build  # Builds your documentation

      - name: Publish to Cloudflare Pages
        uses: cloudflare/pages-action@v1
        with:
          apiToken: ${{ secrets.CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN }}
          accountId: YOUR_ACCOUNT_ID
          projectName: YOUR_PROJECT_NAME
          directory: ./site
          # Optional: Enable this if you want to have GitHub Deployments triggered
          gitHubToken: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          # Optional: Switch what branch you are publishing to.
          # By default this will be the branch which triggered this workflow
          branch: main