Sunset in-repo releases

[why]
We struggle with the pack-committing of patched fonts to the repository
on release. This makes our repo grow extremely big. It would be better
to just use release artifacts for the releases and not commit any
patched font back.
There were different approaches discussed, but the problem remains that
I personally have no rights to implement anything of that - neither can
I force push to the default branch, nor can I create new repos in the
organization.

[how]
To make it still possible to add new fonts without a repo size
explosion we do not release NEW fonts back to the repository as commits,
but old fonts are handled as before.
NEW fonts:
 * have a new property set in the fonts.yaml 'database'
 * are released as release artifact via release workflow (but not
   committed back)
 * get a readme in the patched_fonts/ directory that points to the
   release artifact page

The solution is not ideal, but for sure better than not adding any fonts
anymore or having the repo grow in size faster and faster.

At some point in time I would like to phase out all in-repo releases,
also for OLD fonts.

This scheme has been (manually) used / introduced for Intel One.
With this change the .gitignore file is automatically adapted to any new
font that is added with the repoRelease flag set to false (which should
be the default for any added font from now on).

Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <[email protected]>

.github/workflows/pages.yml → .github/workflows/fontjson.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: Update gh-pages
+name: Update gitignore and gh-pages
 
 on:
   push:
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ on:
   workflow_dispatch:
 
 jobs:
-  sync:
+  sync_pages:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Fetch files
@@ -43,3 +43,22 @@ jobs:
           git-config-name: GitHub Actions
           git-config-email: 41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com
           clean: false
+
+  update_gitignore:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      - name: Regenerate gitignore
+        run: |
+          cd bin/scripts
+          ./update-gitignore.sh
+
+      - name: Commit gitignore back to repo
+        uses: EndBug/add-and-commit@v9
+        with:
+          fetch: false
+          add: ".gitignore"
+          message: "[ci] Update .gitignore file"
+          committer_name: GitHub Actions
+          committer_email: 41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -309,6 +309,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Commit patched fonts back to repo
         # For fonts with repoRelease == false in the font.json the gitignore should
         # have been setup in a way that this commits only the README.md
+        # See also fontjson.yml and update-gitignore.sh
         uses: EndBug/add-and-commit@v9
         with:
           fetch: false

.gitignore

@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ bin/scripts/name_parser/__pycache__/*
 bin/scripts/name_parser/log
 # This is just needed for the cheat sheet and not go into the repo:
 css/nerd-fonts-generated-removed.min.css
+# AUTOGENERATED lines follow, do not change or remove the comments
 # Non-Repo-Released fonts, see fonts.json:
 patched-fonts/IntelOneMono/*
 !patched-fonts/IntelOneMono/README.md
+# AUTOGENERATED lines end

bin/scripts/README.md

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ Note: Usually you need to call the scripts in this directory while actually bein
 * `test-powerlines.sh`: Print-to-debug powerline examples [4]
 * `tests.sh`: Create some font usage gif movie? [x]
 * `update-all-contributors-website.py`: Update the contributors page on `nerdfonts.com` (i.e. gh-pages) [7]
+* `update-gitignore.sh`: Correct gitignore file for not-released-in-repo fonts [8]
 * `version-bump.sh`: Change version number in all scripts on a new release [1]
 
 [1] Used by CI (github release workflow)
@@ -39,4 +40,5 @@ Note: Usually you need to call the scripts in this directory while actually bein
 [5] Used by CI (github packsvgs workflow)
 [6] Used by CI (github casks workflow)
 [7] Used by CI (github contributors workflow)
+[8] Used by CI (github fontjson workflow)
 [x] Probably not used by anything