Configure git on build

Author: wang-arthur

.github/workflows/azure-container-webapp.yml

@@ -63,13 +63,24 @@ jobs:
       - name: Lowercase the repo name and username
         run: echo "REPO=${GITHUB_REPOSITORY,,}" >>${GITHUB_ENV}
 
+      - name: Retrieve GitHub user email
+        id: get_email
+        run: |
+          echo "Retrieving email for user: ${{ github.actor }}"
+          email=$(curl -s -H "Authorization: token ${{ github.token }}" https://api.github.com/user | jq -r '.email')
+          echo "GIT_EMAIL=$email" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
       - name: Build and push container image to registry
         uses: docker/build-push-action@0565240e2d4ab88bba5387d719585280857ece09 # v5.0.0
         with:
           push: true
           tags: ghcr.io/${{ env.REPO }}:${{ github.sha }}
           file: ./Dockerfile
           context: .
+          build-args: |
+            GIT_USERNAME=${{ github.actor }}
+            GIT_EMAIL=${{ env.GIT_EMAIL }}
+            GIT_TOKEN=${{ secrets.SUBMODULE_GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
   deploy:
     permissions:

Dockerfile

@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ ENV PACKAGES 			\
 	php81-apache2		\
 	runit			\
 	nano            \
-	bash			
+	bash			\
+	git
 
 # PHP extensions
 ENV PHP_EXTENSIONS		\
@@ -81,13 +82,23 @@ ENV BUILDERS 		\
 # This let us joining runs in a single layer.
 COPY exclude.list /tmp/exclude.list
 
+# Add build arguments for Git credentials
+ARG GIT_USERNAME
+ARG GIT_EMAIL
+ARG GIT_TOKEN
+
 RUN set -xe \
 	&& apk add --no-cache --virtual .build-deps $BUILDERS \
 	&& apk add --no-cache $PACKAGES \
 	&& apk add --no-cache $PHP_EXTENSIONS \
         && apk add --no-cache --repository http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.18/community/ gnu-libiconv=1.17-r1 \
-# Building OJS:
-      # Configure and download code from git
+		# Configure Git with provided credentials
+    && git config --global user.name "${GIT_USERNAME}" \
+    && git config --global user.email "${GIT_EMAIL}" \
+    && git config --global credential.helper store \
+    && echo "https://${GIT_USERNAME}:${GIT_TOKEN}@github.com" > ~/.git-credentials \
+	# Building OJS:
+    # Configure and download code from git
 	&& git config --global url.https://.insteadOf git:// \
 	&& git config --global advice.detachedHead false \
 	&& git clone --depth 1 --single-branch --branch $OJS_VERSION --progress https://github.com/pkp/ojs.git . \