Can directory level _metadata.yml provide separate repo-actions

[mark-andrews]

Description

In a directory level _metadata.yml, we can have a new repo-url key that overrides the website/repo-url that is set in the top level _quarto.yml. See #4668 and 3870d39 .

However, it seems like I can not do the same thing with repo-actions. In other words, I can not set a repo-actions value in a directory level _metadata.yml that overrides the value set in website/repo-actions in _quarto.yml. For example, if my _quarto.yml has

website:
  repo-url: "https://github.com/foobar/barfoo"
  repo-actions: [source, edit]

if I have the following in a directory _metadata.yml

website:
  repo-url: "https://github.com/foobar/bazfoo"
  repo-actions: [source]

then the URL for the GitHub repo on pages in that sub-directory will change from barfoo to bazfoo, but the actions will not have from view source and edit source to just view source.

Ultimately what I would like is to have pages in some subdirectories to have the button to view the source code on GitHub, and pages in some other subdirectories to not have any buttons to link to the source code on GitHub, which I am trying to do by setting repo-actions: none in _metadata.yml in some directories.

Is there a way to to have directory level different values of repo-actions, or is there some other way of turning off these repo actions in all pages in some subdirectories?

[cderv]

I don't think there is a way. It would be exactly the same kind of fix that for #4668 and 3870d39

We allow to opt out at document level using repo-actions: false but we don't offer to configure it differently

quarto-cli/src/project/types/website/website-navigation.ts

Lines 642 to 660 in 37bc223

	function handleRepoLinks(
	format: Format,
	doc: Document,
	source: string,
	language: FormatLanguage,
	config?: ProjectConfig,
	) {
	// Don't process repo-actions if document disables it
	if (format.metadata[kSiteRepoActions] === false) {
	return;
	}
	const forceRepoActions = format.metadata[kSiteRepoActions] === true;
	const repoActions = websiteConfigActions(
	kSiteRepoActions,
	kWebsite,
	config,
	);

I'll move this to an enhancement. Thanks

[cderv]

• Allow to configure repo-actions at directory level #11563