Export PDFs to 'pdf' branch

Author: vsheg

.github/workflows/render.yml

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 on:
   push:
+    paths:
+      - '**.typ'
   workflow_dispatch:
 jobs:
   compile:
@@ -8,11 +10,21 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - uses: typst-community/setup-typst@v3
       - run: make compile
-      - run: |
-          git config --global user.name "github-actions[bot]"
-          git config --global user.email "github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
-          git add */*.pdf
-          git commit -m "Add compiled PDF"
-          git push
-        env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+      - name: Commit and Export to pdfs Branch
+        run: |
+          # Set up Git user
+          git config --global user.name "github-actions"
+          git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
+          
+          # Create the 'pdfs' branch from the current repository state
+          git checkout --orphan pdfs
+          git reset --hard
+          
+          # Add all files, including generated PDFs
+          git add -A
+          
+          # Commit changes
+          git commit -m "Export PDFs to pdfs branch"
+          
+          # Push to pdfs branch, force to overwrite previous branch contents
+          git push --force origin pdfs