README.md

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Publish Github Release Assets Helper

Create GitHub Release Assets with ease from your existing bash build scripts. No need to fiddle with the API directly.

 

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Prerequisites

• GITHUB_AUTH_TOKEN environment variable must contain valid GitHub Personal Access Token
• Bash 3 or 4 required
• curl and jq required
• Git Tags should exist before creating a release!
• Git Tags should be equal to Release-Name!

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Usage

Use this script inside an existing bash script like so to create a Release 1.3 and upload test/test.json to it.

#!/bin/bash

set -e

#
# other stuff
#

#
# INSTALL publish-github-release-assets-helper.sh
#
curl -so ./publish-github-release-assets-helper.sh \
"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/codeclou/publish-github-release-assets-helper/\
1.0.0/publish-github-release-assets-helper.sh"
echo "9c02010abdb08080f0dbce4088f9d44abf5de54b9d3\
f11c0caec63d17016d98d9f6b65bb33d64d9d057c37aec6e6\
3d1fac37eedd565ab5dae603b2695276be6d  publish-github-release-assets-helper.sh" \
> ./publish-github-release-assets-helper.sh.sha512sum
sha512sum -c publish-github-release-assets-helper.sh.sha512sum
source ./publish-github-release-assets-helper.sh

#
# PUBLISH RELEASE AND ASSETS
#
release_id=-1
release_name="1.3"
repository_owner="codeclou"
repository_name="doc"
branch_to_create_tag_from="master"   # = target_commitish -> Unused if the Git tag already exists! 
                                     #   https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/releases/#create-a-release

create_github_release_and_get_release_id \
    $repository_owner \
    $repository_name \
    $release_name \
    $branch_to_create_tag_from \
    release_id

upload_asset_to_github_release \
    $repository_owner \
    $repository_name \
    $release_name \
    $release_id \
    test/ \
    test.json \
    "application/json"

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License

MIT © Bernhard Grünewaldt