Provide GitHub action

[koppor]

When using gradle on GitHub, it is advisable to use the setup-gradle action, because it optimizes caching

When I switch from gradlew to gg and if I want to have some caching, I have to use setup-gradle and I have to maintain the gradle version both in the call of gg (or the gradle.properties entry), and in gradle-version of setup-gradle action.

With a gg-action, would not be required to use setup-gradle any more and could just use gg.

[koppor]

Maybe, it is just about a composite action caching .cache folder.

[eirikb]

I believe that is spot on. Caching .cache folder should solve this quite well. gg only cares about that folder, and if that folder stays the same it should "Just work ™️ "

I guess we can close this discussion?

[koppor]

I think, a github action would "complete" this thing. A user doesn't need to think about caching config, but just use the action

I saw at gradle, that caching is a science per se - so, I am open to just close this, because it not strictly related to gg.cmd

[koppor]

Providing an action would dismiss a GitHub security alert

Happened in JabRef/jabref#14426

[eirikb]

Doing some housekeeping in old discussions.

This should exist now:

- uses: eirikb/gg/action@main
- run: gg.cmd gradle build

It caches ~/.cache/gg, so setup-gradle shouldn't be needed anymore. Cache key is hashFiles('**/gg.toml'), so if you pin gradle somewhere else you just get an older cache and a re-download.

Closing this one, feel free to re-open.