Configuring mike 2.0 with mkdocs-material

[claudio-alvaro-wbgames]

Our documentation deployment stopped working since the release of mike 2.0. I believe it's because we are deploying using CI on Github Enterprise Server 3.8 which doesn't support symbolic links (the default setting for aliasing versions with mike 2.0).

There seems to be an option for mike to use the old method by setting its option alias_type to redirect/copy (pre 2.0 methods). This is normally set in mkdocs.yml through the plugins section, however the documentation for mkdocs-material specifies setting extra\version\provider:mike field instead for versioning docs.

Is there a way to pass the alias_type option within the extra section of mcdocs.yml to mike, or should I be using the plugin section instead? I presume that mike to the plugins section may not play nice with mkdocs-material, but I'm really not entirely sure how to fix this aside from rolling back to mike 1.x.

[claudio-alvaro-wbgames]

We managed to simply pass the argument directly during the docs publishing CI step:

      - name: Publish docs
        run: |
          git config user.name github-workflow-bot
          git config user.email [email protected]
          mike deploy --push --update-aliases ${{ github.ref_name }} latest --alias-type=redirect
          mike set-default --push latest