Style and roxygen workflow improvements

.github/workflows/build-check-install.yaml

@@ -302,6 +302,11 @@ jobs:
           ref: ${{ steps.branch-name.outputs.head_ref_branch }}
           path: ${{ github.event.repository.name }}
           repository: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name }}
+          # When fetch-depth is set to 1 (default), and if additional commits are added
+          # to the branch between this step and the 'Set TESTING_DEPTH' step, git might fail
+          # referencing ${{ github.event.after }} commit
+          # because it's not the latest commit fetched by this step.
+          fetch-depth: 0
 
       - name: Checkout repo 🛎
         uses: actions/checkout@v4

.github/workflows/roxygen.yaml

@@ -152,10 +152,11 @@ jobs:
               echo "Regenerating man pages via auto-update"
               git config --global user.name "github-actions"
               git config --global user.email "41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
-              git add -A man/ DESCRIPTION
-              git commit -m "Roxygen Man Pages Auto Update"
+              git config pull.rebase false
               BRANCH_NAME="${{ steps.branch-name.outputs.head_ref_branch }}"
-              git pull origin ${BRANCH_NAME}
+              git pull origin ${BRANCH_NAME} || true
+              git add -A man/ DESCRIPTION
+              git commit -m "[skip roxygen] [skip vbump] Roxygen Man Pages Auto Update"
               git push -v origin HEAD:${BRANCH_NAME} || \
                 (echo "⚠️ Could not push to ${BRANCH_NAME} on $(git remote -v show -n origin | grep Push)" && \
                 AUTO_UPDATE=failed)

.github/workflows/spelling.yaml

@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ jobs:
         if: github.event_name == 'push'
         uses: stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action@v5
         with:
-          commit_message: "Update WORDLIST"
+          commit_message: "[skip ci] Update WORDLIST"
           file_pattern: "${{ steps.file-pattern.outputs.file-pattern }}"
           commit_user_name: github-actions
           commit_user_email: >-

.github/workflows/style.yaml

@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ on:
       - main
   workflow_dispatch:
   workflow_call:
+    secrets:
+      REPO_GITHUB_TOKEN:
+        description: |
+          Github token with write access to the repo
+        required: false
     inputs:
       auto-update:
         description: If R code style is not up-to-date, styling will automatically be applied and restyled files will be automatically committed o the branch.
@@ -42,17 +47,31 @@ jobs:
       image: ghcr.io/insightsengineering/rstudio:latest
 
     steps:
-      - name: Checkout Code 🛎
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          path: ${{ github.event.repository.name }}
-          fetch-depth: 0
+      - name: Setup token 🔑
+        id: github-token
+        run: |
+          if [ "${{ secrets.REPO_GITHUB_TOKEN }}" == "" ]; then
+            echo "REPO_GITHUB_TOKEN is empty. Substituting it with GITHUB_TOKEN."
+            echo "token=${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          else
+            echo "Using REPO_GITHUB_TOKEN."
+            echo "token=${{ secrets.REPO_GITHUB_TOKEN }}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          fi
+        shell: bash
 
       - name: Get branch names 🌿
         if: inputs.auto-update
         id: branch-name
         uses: tj-actions/branch-names@v7
 
+      - name: Checkout Code 🛎
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          path: ${{ github.event.repository.name }}
+          fetch-depth: 0
+          token: ${{ steps.github-token.outputs.token }}
+          ref: ${{ steps.branch-name.outputs.head_ref_branch }}
+
       - name: Install styler 👚
         run: |
           install.packages("styler", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org")
@@ -119,9 +138,10 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           git config --global user.name 'github-actions'
           git config --global user.email '41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com'
+          git config pull.rebase false
+          git pull origin ${{ steps.branch-name.outputs.head_ref_branch }} || true
           git add ${{ steps.problem-files.outputs.unstyled-files }}
-          git commit -m 'Restyle files'
-          git pull origin ${{ steps.branch-name.outputs.head_ref_branch }}
+          git commit -m '[skip style] [skip vbump] Restyle files'
           git push -v origin HEAD:${{ steps.branch-name.outputs.head_ref_branch }} || \
             echo "⚠️ Could not push to ${BRANCH_NAME} on $(git remote -v show -n origin | grep Push)"
         shell: bash