#184 update workflow to actually push to main

.github/workflows/update_post_dates.yml

@@ -11,7 +11,23 @@ jobs:
     container:
       image: "rocker/tidyverse:4.2.1"
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          ref: main  # replace with the branch you want to checkout
+
       - name: Run update_post_dates
-        run: source("R/update_post_dates.R")
-        shell: Rscript {0}
+        run: Rscript R/update_post_dates.R  # running the R script with Rscript
+
+      - name: Configure Git safe directory
+        run: git config --global --add safe.directory /__w/blog/blog
+
+      - name: Commit results
+        run: |
+          git config --global user.name 'github-actions[bot]'
+          git config --global user.email 'github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com'
+          git add .
+          git commit -m "Auto-update blog post date"
+          git push origin main
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}