alfred-workflow-release.yml

name: Alfred Workflow Release

on:
  push:
    tags: ["*"]

env:
  WORKFLOW_NAME: ${{ github.event.repository.name }}
  GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

permissions:
  contents: write

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jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: macos-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        # by default, no tags and only a single commit is fetched. To use git
        # history in the next step, we need to fetch all history.
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0 # 0 = all history
          fetch-tags: true

      - name: Create changelog
        run: |
          count_tags="$(git tag | wc -l)"
          if [[ $count_tags -ge 2 ]]; then 
            previous_tag=$(git tag --sort=-creatordate | head -2 | tail -1)
            ref="$previous_tag"
          else
            root_commit=$(git rev-list --max-parents=0 HEAD)
            ref="$root_commit"
          fi
          prev_commit_messages=$(git log "$ref"..HEAD^ --format='- %s' |
            sed -E "s/^- ([^ ]+): /- **\1**: /")
          echo "### Changelog" > CHANGELOG.txt
          echo "$prev_commit_messages" >> CHANGELOG.txt

      - name: Build .alfredworkflow
        run: |
          zip --recurse-paths --symlinks "${{ env.WORKFLOW_NAME }}.alfredworkflow" . \
            --exclude "README.md" "CHANGELOG.txt" \
            ".git*" "Justfile" ".build-and-release.sh" ".rsync-exclude" \
            ".editorconfig" ".typos.toml" ".markdownlint.*"

      # DOCS https://github.com/softprops/action-gh-release?tab=readme-ov-file#%EF%B8%8F-uploading-release-assets
      - name: Release
        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2
        with:
          token: ${{ env.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          body_path: CHANGELOG.txt
          files: ${{ env.WORKFLOW_NAME }}.alfredworkflow