From 937d541a027a12eb4f053773c5632b4b86612a9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lena Pastwa <lena@lnps.me>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 18:05:49 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] scripts/deploy: stop deploying to tldr.sh/assets (#20565)

---
 scripts/deploy.sh | 38 +++++++++++---------------------------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/deploy.sh b/scripts/deploy.sh
index f582c8dc19..720bbec231 100755
--- a/scripts/deploy.sh
+++ b/scripts/deploy.sh
@@ -12,51 +12,35 @@ function initialize {
     exit 0
   fi
 
-  export SITE_HOME="$HOME/site"
+  export ASSETS="$HOME/assets"
   export LANG_ARCHIVES="$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/language_archives"
   export PDFS="$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/scripts/pdf"
   export INDEX="$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/index.json"
   RELEASE_TAG="$(git describe --tags --abbrev=0)"
   export RELEASE_TAG
-
-  # Configure git.
-  git config --global user.email "tldrbotgithub@gmail.com"
-  git config --global user.name "tldr bot"
-  git config --global push.default simple
-  git config --global diff.zip.textconv "unzip -c -a"
-
-  # Decrypt and add deploy key.
-  eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
-  echo "$DEPLOY_KEY" > id_ed25519
-  chmod 600 id_ed25519
-  ssh-add id_ed25519
 }
 
 function upload_assets {
-  git clone --quiet --depth 1 "git@github.com:tldr-pages/tldr-pages.github.io.git" "$SITE_HOME"
+  mkdir "$ASSETS"
 
-  cp -f "$TLDR_ARCHIVE" "$SITE_HOME/assets/"
-  find "$LANG_ARCHIVES" -maxdepth 1 -name "*.zip" -exec cp -f {} "$SITE_HOME/assets/" \;
-  cp -f "$INDEX" "$SITE_HOME/assets/"
-  find "$PDFS" -maxdepth 1 -name "*.pdf" -exec cp -f {} "$SITE_HOME/assets/" \;
-
-  cd "$SITE_HOME/assets"
-  sha256sum -- index.json *.zip > tldr.sha256sums
-
-  # Old way of distributing assets. This needs to be deleted later.
-  git add -A
-  git commit -m "[GitHub Actions] uploaded assets after commit tldr-pages/tldr@$GITHUB_SHA"
-  git push -q
-  echo "Assets (pages archive, index and checksums) deployed to the static site."
+  # Assets are built only for changed directories.
+  # We need the old zip archives to update `tldr.sha256sums`.
+  gh release --repo tldr-pages/tldr download "$RELEASE_TAG" --dir "$ASSETS" --pattern "*.zip"
 
   # Suppress errors from unmatched patterns if some files don't exist.
   shopt -s nullglob
+  cp -t "$ASSETS" "$TLDR_ARCHIVE" "$INDEX" "$LANG_ARCHIVES"/*.zip "$PDFS"/*.pdf
+
+  cd "$ASSETS"
+  sha256sum -- index.json *.zip > tldr.sha256sums
+
   gh release --repo tldr-pages/tldr upload --clobber "$RELEASE_TAG" -- \
     tldr.sha256sums \
     "$TLDR_ARCHIVE" \
     "$INDEX" \
     "$LANG_ARCHIVES/"*.zip \
     "$PDFS/"*.pdf
+
   shopt -u nullglob
   echo "Assets deployed to GitHub releases."
 }