fix: correctly update the generated available-plugins during deploys. #1287
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.
Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.
Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.
You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.
Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.
This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.
Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.
Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.
Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
The Problem
🔑 We see on the public docs that available plugins are outdated severely. Roughly 4 years.
This is because files that are generated are supposed to be stored in
docs/generated/and then a script during mkdocs build copies those files out of generated into the final resting place.That script copies 2 files and a directory prior to doc build.
So every release we copy a file that has not been updated in years overwriting the one that was freshly updated via the release. So the "Available Plugins" has been frozen in time for 4 years.
This requires a fix in both repositories since the bug occurred when fastlane/fastlane started writing files not in the generated folder.
The Fix
We git-ignore files in the main tree that are built via automation. This will prevent humans from changing files that should not be changed and push us to the automation/generated path.
This PR on fastlane/fastlane side will fix it going forward - fastlane/fastlane#29729
fixes: #1278