Private Blog Posts Using Git Submodules

Alternate titles:

• separate your writing from your coding with git sub modules

To Read

• Git Submodules Tutorial for Beginners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSlXo2iLBro
• How I organize my posting process: https://giuliachiola.dev/posts/blog-crossposting/
• Repository permissions and linking: https://docs.netlify.com/configure-builds/repo-permissions-linking/#git-submodules
• https://mayashavin.com/articles/github-actions-deploy-nuxt
• https://git-scm.com/docs/git-submodule

Read

• Using Git Submodules for Private Content: https://www.taniarascia.com/git-submodules-private-content/

GitHub

1. Create blog repo (public or private)
2. Create posts repo (private)

Blog repo

1. Add posts repo as a submodule — steps?

git submodule add git@github.com:ooloth/content.git src/content

Posts repo

1. Create a personal access token
2. Add private access token to repo secrets
3. Create a GitHub Actions workflow to publish posts changes to blog repo automatically

Netlify

1. On blog site, add generate a deploy key
2. On posts repo, save deploy key in Settings > Deploy keys

Publishing

My current process for updating the site looks like:

1. Make changes to posts repo a. On iOS, I use Working Copy and sometimes iA Writer for a nicer writing experience b. On macOS, I use VS Code (with Alfred/Raycast ingtegration?)
2. Commit + push changes to posts repo
3. A GitHub Action workflow in my posts repo automatically pushes the changes to the blog repo
4. Netlify notices the changes to the blog repo and deploys a new version