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fix: mark auto-tag tags explicitly for the release guard #285

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4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion .github/workflows/auto-tag.yml
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Expand Up @@ -55,7 +55,9 @@ jobs:
echo "Creating tag: $TAG"
git config user.name "github-actions[bot]"
git config user.email "github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
git tag -a "$TAG" -m "Release $TAG"
# The "[auto-tag]" marker in the tag message tells release.yml to skip
# this tag (#278, #282). Keep it in sync with the guard job there.
git tag -a "$TAG" -m "Release $TAG [auto-tag]"
git push origin "$TAG"
echo "Successfully created and pushed tag: $TAG"
echo "created=true" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
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11 changes: 7 additions & 4 deletions .github/workflows/release.yml
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Expand Up @@ -32,8 +32,9 @@ jobs:
# 0. Skip tags pushed by auto-tag.yml. auto-tag pushes with RELEASE_PAT, which
# (unlike GITHUB_TOKEN) fires this workflow too; without this guard both
# workflows create the same release and race on the SBOM upload (#278).
# auto-tag creates annotated tags as github-actions[bot], so the tagger
# tells them apart from tags pushed by hand.
# auto-tag puts an explicit "[auto-tag]" marker in the tag message (#282).
# The github-actions[bot] tagger check covers tags created before the
# marker was introduced.
guard:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
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fi
read -r TYPE SHA < <(gh api "repos/${{ github.repository }}/git/ref/tags/${TAG}" --jq '.object.type + " " + .object.sha')
TAGGER=""
MESSAGE=""
if [ "$TYPE" = "tag" ]; then
TAGGER=$(gh api "repos/${{ github.repository }}/git/tags/${SHA}" --jq '.tagger.name')
MESSAGE=$(gh api "repos/${{ github.repository }}/git/tags/${SHA}" --jq '.message')
fi
echo "Tag ${TAG}: type=${TYPE}, tagger=${TAGGER:-<none>}"
if [ "$TAGGER" = "github-actions[bot]" ]; then
echo "Tag ${TAG}: type=${TYPE}, tagger=${TAGGER:-<none>}, message=${MESSAGE:-<none>}"
if [[ "$MESSAGE" == *"[auto-tag]"* ]] || [ "$TAGGER" = "github-actions[bot]" ]; then
echo "Tag was created by auto-tag.yml, which handles the release. Skipping."
echo "skip=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
else
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