Working on packaging

.github/publish-maven-package.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
-# This workflow will build a package using Maven and then publish it to GitHub packages when a release is created
-# For more information see: https://github.com/actions/setup-java/blob/main/docs/advanced-usage.md#apache-maven-with-a-settings-path
-
-name: Publish Maven Package
+name: Updated repository in packages branch
 
 on:
   workflow_dispatch:
@@ -14,7 +11,7 @@ jobs:
 
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     permissions:
-      contents: read
+      contents: write
       packages: write
 
     steps:
@@ -27,10 +24,45 @@ jobs:
           server-id: github # Value of the distributionManagement/repository/id field of the pom.xml
           settings-path: ${{ github.workspace }} # location for the settings.xml file
 
-      - name: Compile Groovy code
-        run:  mvn gplus:compile
+      - name: Compile Groovy code and generate sources
+        run: mvn gplus:compile generate-sources package
+
+
+      #Manually first (once) set up an orphaned branch:
+      # git switch --orphan packages
+      # git commit --allow-empty -m "Initial commit on packages branch"
+      # git push origin packages:packages
+
+      - name: Install Package to packages branch
+        run: |
+          MAINJAR=$(ls -1 target/*.jar  | grep -v sources\.jar) 
+          SOURCEJAR=$(ls -1 target/*.jar  | grep sources\.jar) 
+          VERSION=$(mvn help:evaluate -Dexpression=project.version -q -DforceStdout)
+          echo Main JAR: $MAINJAR
+          echo Source JAR: $SOURCEJAR
+          echo Version: $VERSION
+          mkdir -p repository
+          echo Installing JAR in repository directory
+          mvn install:install-file -DpomFile=pom.xml -DlocalRepositoryPath=repository/ -Dfile="$MAINJAR" -Dsources="$SOURCEJAR" -DgeneratePom=true -DcreateChecksum=true
+
+          git config user.name github-actions
+          git config user.email github-actions@github.com
+          echo Adding repository dir temporarily so stash picks it up
+          git add repository
+          echo Stashing current changes
+          git stash
+          echo Running git fetch
+          git fetch
+          echo Checking out Packages repo
+          git checkout packages
+          echo Applying stash, overwriting any checked out changes
+          git checkout stash -- .
+          echo Running git reset, to ignore any automatically added tracked changes
+          git reset
+          echo Adding repository files to git
+          git add repository/*
+          echo Committing changes
+          git commit -m "Updated packages to $VERSION"
+          echo Pushing changes
+          git push
 
-      - name: Publish Package to Github Maven Repo
-        run: mvn deploy -s $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/settings.xml
-        env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}