Put the tag message on the release page

The release page has been empty since the first release: the workflow
attached the binaries and created the release with no body, so the
changelog lived only in the annotated tag, where nobody reads it.

The tag message, minus its subject line, is now set as the release notes.
Only an annotated tag has a message worth copying, and only a release
with no notes is filled, so re-running a failed release repairs an empty
one without overwriting notes somebody edited by hand afterwards.

The image has no jq, so the JSON string is escaped with sed and awk.
Checked locally against the real v0.10.0 tag text and a string with
quotes, backslashes, tabs, CRLF, backticks and $; each round-trips
through a JSON parser unchanged. Not run in the pipeline: the PATCH call
and the shallow tag clone's git commands are first exercised by the next
tag push, and a failure there fails the step rather than leaving the
notes silently empty.
This commit is contained in:
Niklas Ye
2026-09-23 22:15:14 +02:00
parent 27008086b0
commit 496e7b6d90
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@@ -126,6 +126,28 @@ jobs:
[ -n "$release_id" ] || { echo "::error::could not determine release id"; exit 1; }
echo "release id $release_id"
# The release notes are the tag's own message, minus its subject line: the
# tag body is the changelog for this project, and without this the release
# page stays empty. Only an annotated tag has one, and only a release with
# no notes is filled, so a re-run repairs a release created empty without
# overwriting notes somebody has since edited by hand.
#
# There is no jq in this image, so the JSON string is escaped by hand:
# backslashes first (or the ones added next would double), then quotes and
# tabs, then each line end becomes a literal \n.
if [ "$(git cat-file -t "$REF_NAME")" = tag ] \
&& printf '%s' "$body" | grep -q '"body":""'; then
notes=$(git tag -l --format='%(contents)' "$REF_NAME" | sed '1,2d')
if [ -n "$notes" ]; then
notes_json=$(printf '%s\n' "$notes" \
| sed -e 's/\\/\\\\/g' -e 's/"/\\"/g' -e 's/\t/\\t/g' -e 's/\r$//' \
| awk 'BEGIN { ORS = "\\n" } { print }')
echo "setting release notes from the tag message"
curl -sf -X PATCH -H "$auth" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d "{\"body\":\"$notes_json\"}" "$API/releases/$release_id" > /dev/null
fi
fi
for f in dist/*; do
name=$(basename "$f")
# Drop an existing asset of the same name first: Gitea happily stores two