andelf / nightly-release

A Github Action to create and update a Nightly Release

andelf/nightly-release

This action is use to create/update a nightly release.

• Update Release name with simple template with date
• Create/change nightly tag to head ref
• Remove old assets, and upload new ones

Usage

      - name: Update Nightly Release
        uses: andelf/nightly-release@main
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        with:
          tag_name: nightly
          name: 'Desktop App Nightly Release $$'
          prerelease: true
          body: 'TODO: Add nightly release notes'
          files: |
            ./SHA256SUMS.txt
            ./*.zip
            ./*.dmg
            ./*.exe
            ./*.AppImage

Demo

logseq/logseq is using this action to create nightly releases.

Nightly Release Page

nightly-release's Issues

Skip creating a release if there is no new commits

It is already detected that there is no change to the 'nightly' tag, but the artifacts are nonetheless (unnecessarily) deleted and re-uploaded and a new release created, for example: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/actions/runs/5300815752/jobs/9594882180#step:5:34

Could add an option to force updating if desired, or an option to skip if the current behaviour is to stay as default.

Please update this

It works great so far but it's gonna break soon.
https://github.blog/changelog/2022-10-11-github-actions-deprecating-save-state-and-set-output-commands/