Star History Action

Version updated for https://github.com/narayann7/star-history-action to version v1.0.2.

  • This action is used across all versions by 4 repositories.

Action Type

This is a Composite action.

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What’s Changed

Added

  • font-family input. Set it to any Google Fonts family (for example Patrick Hand) and the renderer downloads that font at run time and applies it to the PNG chart. It reads the font’s real internal name so it matches even when that differs from the family string, and non-Latin families such as Noto Sans SC work. Empty input keeps the bundled Comic Neue with no network call, and any download failure falls back to Comic Neue without failing the run. This affects the PNG only, since GitHub strips @font-face from README-embedded SVGs.
  • Optional watch: types: [started] trigger, documented alongside the cron schedule and workflow_dispatch, so a chart can refresh right after a new star. It supplements the schedule rather than replacing it: watch fires on new stars only, never on unstars, and does not refresh the time axis on quiet days.

Compatibility

  • The change-detection signature now includes the requested font, so changing only font-family invalidates the cache and re-renders. As a side effect the signature format changed, so the first run after upgrading regenerates the chart once even when the star count is unchanged.

Full changelog: https://github.com/narayann7/star-history-action/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md