quarto publish action deletes pr previews

jwindhager commented

2025-10-10 13:25:25 +00:00

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Turns out that since quarto-cli v1.3 quarto publish (and, by extension, the corresponding GHA action) cleans the site directory before rendering (see for example github.com/NBISweden/Training-Tech-shorts@b45bf0b4ad). This means that all PR previews are deleted when a PR is merged. The fix for this is to adapt the publish workflow to not use the quarto publish action, but instead resort to the quarto render action and push the rendered page to the gh-pages branch manually.

Turns out that since quarto-cli v1.3 `quarto publish` (and, by extension, the corresponding GHA action) cleans the site directory before rendering (see for example https://github.com/NBISweden/Training-Tech-shorts/commit/b45bf0b4ad0a81d4ee114eec6ab5a9981d053d23). This means that all PR previews are deleted when a PR is merged. The fix for this is to adapt the publish workflow to not use the quarto publish action, but instead resort to the quarto render action and push the rendered page to the `gh-pages` branch manually.

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jwindhager commented

2025-10-10 13:27:59 +00:00

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I will fix this asap, but it might be a while. Happy if someone else (perhaps with copilot?) can take it before that :)

jwindhager commented

2025-10-10 13:32:36 +00:00

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Just to keep the reference before closing my browser tab: github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli@246f070259

Just to keep the reference before closing my browser tab: https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/commit/246f0702598ac28762a28d621e8508fd721f3b20

mahesh-panchal commented

2025-10-10 18:06:50 +00:00

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In practice this might not be a big issue. Normally there would likely be only one PR following a walkthrough. As long we're aware, schedule updates should only come when lessons have been merged too, so that should minimally affect previews too.

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jwindhager commented

2025-10-10 18:25:26 +00:00

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Yes, and the preview is probably recreated with the next commit to the affected PR, so the impact should be relatively small. Still good to leave this issue open until fixed, I guess.

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