How `freeze` should work when using Github Action ?

[cderv]

Using freeze will create a folder _freeze that should be kept. Usually it is committed (https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-web/tree/main/_freeze) as without it, freezing would not work.

When rendering a Quarto project on Github action, how should that behave ? For document not using freeze it would be ok. For others, it would be required to commit back the change in _freeze probably.

It seems we may have some workflow where rendering locally the website and committing the _site folder will be easier than having GHA render the project.

[brtarran]

Just a comment on freeze generally: when using GHA: freeze: true works as expected, but freeze: auto doesn't work in the same way as when using the quarto render command - all files are re-rendered by the GHA.

[cscheid]

@fatso-jetson thanks for the report. I wonder if the issue is that we need to use a hack like this one to use the git modification dates rather than the filesystem dates.