fix: handle merged PR titles in release workflow

[jarvis9443]

Release failed after #45 merged because the push commit message became feat: release v0.1.0 (#45), while the workflow only accepted an exact feat: release vX.Y.Z[-prerelease] title.

This keeps the strict SemVer validation, but first strips the GitHub merge/squash (#number) suffix when present. It also adds a manual workflow_dispatch input so the release can be rerun after this workflow fix lands, without touching the rockspec again.

I verified these cases locally:

feat: release v0.1.0 (#45) -> v0.1.0 / 0.1.0
feat: release v0.1.0 -> v0.1.0 / 0.1.0
workflow_dispatch version=0.1.0 -> v0.1.0 / 0.1.0
workflow_dispatch version=v0.1.0-rc.10 -> v0.1.0-rc.10 / 0.1.0-rc.10

Invalid suffixes and unsafe version strings are still rejected. After this is merged, rerun the release with:

gh-jarvis workflow run release.yml --repo api7/lua-qjson --ref main -f version=0.1.0

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added a manual release trigger that accepts and validates a version input for releases.

• Chores

  • Improved extraction and validation of release version information from commit messages, including handling of optional trailing references and prerelease tags.

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• .github/workflows/release.yml

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The release workflow now adds a manual workflow_dispatch version input and updates the “Extract release name” step to validate/parse that input or, when absent, sanitize the HEAD commit title (removing a trailing (#<digits>)) before extracting version, version_without_v, and is_prerelease.

Changes

Release workflow updates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Add manual workflow_dispatch trigger .github/workflows/release.yml	Adds a workflow_dispatch trigger with a required version input documenting the expected semver format for manual releases.
Extract release name parsing and validation .github/workflows/release.yml	Updates the Bash extraction step to validate/parse inputs.version when supplied; otherwise, it extracts the HEAD commit title, strips an optional trailing (#<number>), and validates/extracts feat: release vX.Y.Z[-prerelease], emitting version, version_without_v, and is_prerelease.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 3 (Moderate) | ⏱️ ~20 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• api7/lua-qjson#45: This PR also modifies .github/workflows/release.yml to extract and validate release versions from inputs or commit titles.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
E2e Test Quality Review	⚠️ Warning	No E2E tests provided for release workflow changes. PR modifies critical automation with zero test coverage, only manual examples in PR description.	Add bash test suite validating version parsing regex: test title stripping, version extraction, invalid format rejection, prerelease detection, and workflow_dispatch input handling.

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The PR title clearly describes the main change: handling merged PR titles (with GitHub's merge suffix) in the release workflow by stripping the suffix before parsing.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Pull request overview

Fixes the release workflow which broke when PR #45 was squash-merged, because GitHub appended (#45) to the commit title and the strict regex no longer matched. The workflow now strips a trailing (#<number>) suffix before validating against the SemVer release-title regex.

Changes:

• Strip GitHub merge/squash (#<number>) suffix from the commit title before validation.
• Preserve existing strict SemVer validation of the release title.

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