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Create GitHub releases #39

Create GitHub releases

Create GitHub releases #39

Workflow file for this run

name: GitHub
on:
pull_request:
branches: [main]
#on:
# push:
# tags: ["*"]
jobs:
release:
permissions: write-all
runs-on: "ubuntu-latest"
name: Create a Release
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Set up Python 3.11
uses: actions/setup-python@v4
with:
python-version: "3.11"
- name: Create a new GitHub release
run: |
# get the lines where the changelog for the last release starts and finishes
first_line=$(grep -n "\-\-\-\-" CHANGES.rst | cut -d":" -f1 |head -n1)
last_line=$(grep -n "\-\-\-\-" CHANGES.rst | cut -d":" -f1 |head -n2 | tail -n1)
# do some math to adjust the line numbers
first=$((${first_line}+1))
last=$((${last_line}-2))
end=$((${last_line}-1))
# extract the changelog
sed -n "${first},${last}p;${end}q" CHANGES.rst > body.txt
# remove new line characters
sed -z 's/\n/\\n/g' body.txt > body.json
echo '{"tag_name": "${{ github.ref_name }}",' > data.json
echo '"name": "${{ github.ref_name }}",' >> data.json
echo '"body": "' >> data.json
cat body.json >> data.json
echo '"}" >> data.json
cat data.json
curl -L \
-X POST \
--header "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
--header 'authorization: Bearer ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}' \
https://api.github.com/repos/${{ github.repository }}/releases \
-d "@data.json"