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[CI/CD] WIP: Re-use Workflows to Ensure GitHub Pages is built after every pre-release - Cleanup Workflow Naming Inconsistency - Remove 'release.yaml' workflow #1

[CI/CD] WIP: Re-use Workflows to Ensure GitHub Pages is built after every pre-release - Cleanup Workflow Naming Inconsistency - Remove 'release.yaml' workflow

[CI/CD] WIP: Re-use Workflows to Ensure GitHub Pages is built after every pre-release - Cleanup Workflow Naming Inconsistency - Remove 'release.yaml' workflow #1

name: Update changelog.md on Release
on:
workflow_dispatch: # Manual trigger added
workflow_call: # Make this Working a re-usable one (can be called form another workflow)
jobs:
update-changelog-file:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:

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- name: Checkout Repository
uses: actions/checkout@v4
# Make sure to get latest commits, like the one committed by the previous job in jobs list.
# reference: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/110853
with:
fetch-tags: 'true'
submodules: 'recursive'
ref: ${{ github.ref_name }}
- name: Get all releases and update changelog.md file
run: |
# Initialize some values
changelog_path="docs/changelog.md"
gh release list --exclude-drafts --json tagName,name,isLatest,isPrerelease --limit 1000000 > releases.txt
declare -rA number_of_releases=$(cat releases.txt | grep -Po '"tagName"' | wc --lines)
# Clear the contents of changelog file
echo "" > $changelog_path
# Write some Initial Content to changelog file
echo "# Changelog" >> $changelog_path
echo "" >> $changelog_path
echo "WinUtil changelog is based on GitHub Releases, and autogenerated using GitHub Actions." >> $changelog_path
echo "" >> $changelog_path
echo "!!! warning \"Important\"" >> $changelog_path
echo "" >> $changelog_path
echo " This file **SHOULD NOT** be edited directly, any PRs that tries changing it directly will either be requested on not changing it, or said PR **will get rejected**." >> $changelog_path
echo "" >> $changelog_path
# Make array for git tag names
tag_arr=()
cat releases.txt | grep -Po '"tagName":\s*.*?[^\\]"' | awk -F ':' '{print $2}' | sed s/\"//g > tags_list.txt
while read -r line; do
tag_arr+=("$line")
done < tags_list.txt
# Make array for releases names
name_arr=()
cat releases.txt | grep -Po '"name":\s*.*?[^\\]"' | awk -F ':' '{print $2}' | sed s/\"//g > releases_names_list.txt
while read -r line; do
name_arr+=("$line")
done < releases_names_list.txt
# Make array for isPrerelease
isprerelease_arr=()
cat releases.txt | grep -Po '"isPrerelease":\s*(false|true)' | awk -F ':' '{print $2}' | sed s/\"//g > isprerelease_list.txt
while read -r line; do
isprerelease_arr+=("$line")
done < isprerelease_list.txt
# Make array for isLatest
islatest_arr=()
cat releases.txt | grep -Po '"isLatest":\s*(false|true)' | awk -F ':' '{print $2}' | sed s/\"//g > islatest_list.txt
while read -r line; do
islatest_arr+=("$line")
done < islatest_list.txt
# Debug Output
echo "Tag Array: " ${tag_arr[@]}
echo "Array Length: " ${#tag_arr[@]}
echo ""
echo "Release Name Array: " ${name_arr[@]}
echo "Array Length: " ${#name_arr[@]}
echo ""
echo "IsPrerelease Array: " ${isprerelease_arr[@]}
echo "Array Length: " ${#isprerelease_arr[@]}
echo ""
echo "IsLatest Array: " ${islatest_arr[@]}
echo "Array Length: " ${#islatest_arr[@]}
echo ""
# Exit when this impossible condition is met (just to be safe)
if [[ ! (${#tag_arr[@]}==${#name_arr[@]} && ${#tag_arr[@]}==${#isprerelease_arr[@]} && ${#tag_arr[@]}==${#islatest_arr[@]} ) ]] ; then
echo "Impossible Condition has been met, the Name Array Length Does Not match Tag Array Length, exiting..."
exit 1
fi
# Main loop that does the heavy lifting (Content Generation)
for (( i=0; i<${number_of_releases}; i++ ));
do
# The Variables to use on each iteration
tag=${tag_arr[$i]}
name=${name_arr[$i]}
isprerelease=${isprerelease_arr[$i]}
islatest=${islatest_arr[$i]}
body=$(gh release view "$tag" --json body --jq .body)
# The generation of changelog file contents
echo "# $name" >> $changelog_path
echo "" >> $changelog_path
echo "$body" >> $changelog_path
echo "" >> $changelog_path
done
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
- name: Commit and Push Changes
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
run: |
git config --global user.name 'github-actions[bot]'
git config --global user.email 'github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com'
git add docs/changelog.md
git commit -m "Update changelog.md with all releases"
git push