replicate SF bay hub website

[skyfaller]

It appears that we want to clone only the gh-pages branch which should only contain the public files as produced by Hugo. A command like
git clone -b gh-pages --single-branch https://github.com/sunrise-bay-area/sunrise-bay-area.git
might do the desired shallow clone.

Version parameter should give us a clone of the correct branch using the Ansible git module, and the depth parameter trims history (to save transfer/space) and also apparently "When you use the –depth flag with clone command, Git assumes the –single-branch flag by default," so using depth should also give us only a single branch's history.

[skyfaller]

This now works in our test environment on brockovich, need to confirm with SF Bay that it doesn't interfere with their CICD pipeline before we can use it in production.

[alxmrs]

The content of the folder that houses the sfbay website should be updated in response to an update to the repo.

Right now, we are scp-ing the contents of the public folder to the aformentioned folder. Will this mess with your system? Or, is this compatible? (My intuition says this is the case.)

Can Ansible respond to events (via webhooks, cicd, actions, etc.)? If so, then we can replace what I've currently go in travis with something better.

[skyfaller]

Two questions:

• Does scp and git conflict? I know that git doesn't like it if I try to clone a repo into a directory that already exists. If I force git to clone anyway, and then you scp some changes in the future, will it annoy git again? Git will now have a .git directory, and we're pulling from the same repo, so maybe it's OK? Is it usually OK, but with some weird edge cases where they do conflict? Can you use git instead of scp?
• Does it matter who the owner+group are? I habitually make all websites owned by the web server user (e.g. www-data:www-data), in case we install software that lets you edit your website through a web interface, but it looks like your user:group for scp are alxrsngrtn:root, or sometimes alxrsngrtn:alxrsngrtn. If I make things owned by www-data, will that interfere with your CICD? Who should the user:group be?

Ansible can e.g. edit webhooks for jenkins to use, but I don't think it's really designed to handle events itself. Ansible isn't something that runs continuously, it's something that runs on a client when you trigger it, and then it SSHes to your server and does stuff there. I know very little about webhooks, cicd, actions etc., however, so I could be very wrong.