git-repo-sync VS latex-action

name: GitlabSync on: - push - delete jobs: sync: runs-on: ubuntu-latest name: Git Repo Sync steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v2 with: fetch-depth: 0 - uses: wangchucheng/[email protected] with: # Such as https://github.com/wangchucheng/git-repo-sync.git target-url: ${{ secrets.TARGET_URL }} # Such as wangchucheng target-username: ${{ secrets.TARGET_USERNAME }} # You can store token in your project's 'Setting > Secrets' and reference the name here. Such as ${{ secrets.ACCESS\_TOKEN }} target-token: ${{ secrets.TARGET_TOKEN }}

The main purpose of this template is not to automate the compilation process, as you've said it would be too slow, and there are tools that provides this service, if needed, such as Cheng Xu's latex-action. It provides an automation for creating milestones in your LaTeX project. For example, you have completed an iteration of the project, say v01, you tag the last commit and push to GitHub remote. That state of the project is saved as a release, and the PDF file generated from those source files are also added to that release.