create-gh-release.yml

name: "6. Auto-create GitHub release"

on:
  push:
    tags:
      - "v*.*.*"

jobs:
  create-gh-release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: "Checkout source code"
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: "Check if release already exists"
        id: check-release
        env:
          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
        run: |
          echo "Tag name from github.ref_name: ${{ github.ref_name }}"
          if gh release view ${{ github.ref_name }}; then
            # This workflow is triggered more than once in the internal repo.
            # Subsequent runs are undesirable, so don't continue.
            # See notes at https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/abd-vro/issues/1955
            echo "continue=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
            echo "Skipping b/c GitHub release ${{ github.ref_name }} already exists." | tee -a "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
          else
            echo "continue=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
          fi

      - name: "Create GitHub Release"
        if: steps.check-release.outputs.continue == 'true'
        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v1
        with:
          name: "${{ github.ref_name }}-auto"
          # Use a token so that auto-creating a GH Release will trigger the SecRel workflow
          token: ${{ secrets.ACCESS_TOKEN_PUSH_TO_DEVELOP }}
          prerelease: true
          generate_release_notes: true
          append_body: true
          body: "Automatically created by create-gh-release GitHub Action (run #${{github.run_number}})"