Update release workflow with commit message variable

- Added a new step to the release workflow that sets a commit message variable.
- This step ensures that the commit message is captured and stored for future reference.
- The commit message is retrieved using the `steps.commit-message.outputs.COMMIT_MESSAGE` variable.

Update release workflow to use commit message variable

- Updated the release workflow to use the commit message variable.
- This change ensures that the commit message is used when creating a release.
- The commit message is now stored in the `$GITHUB_OUTPUT` file and can be accessed by other steps in the workflow.

.gitea/workflows/main.yml

@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ jobs:
     - name: Extract tag version number
       id: get_version
       uses: battila7/get-version-action@v2
-    - run: echo ${{ steps.get_version.outputs.version-without-v }} ${{ github.repository }} ${{ github.event.release.tag_name }} ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} ${{ github.event.release.name }}
    
     # Substitute the Manifest and Download URLs in the module.json
     - name: Substitute Manifest and Download Links For Versioned Ones
@@ -28,18 +27,27 @@ jobs:
         manifest: https://gitea.ascorrea.com/${{github.repository}}/releases/latest/download/module.json
         download: https://gitea.ascorrea.com/${{github.repository}}/releases/download/${{github.event.release.tag_name}}/module.zip
 
-    - run: git reflog
-      env: 
-        ZIP_FILENAME: "module.zip"
-        DIST_BRANCH_NAME: "main"
-
     # Create a zip file with all files required by the module to add to the release
-    - env: 
-        ZIP_FILENAME: "module.zip"
-        DIST_BRANCH_NAME: "main"
-      run: mkdir -p dist && git archive --format zip --output dist/${ZIP_FILENAME} HEAD:src && cp src/module.json dist/ && echo \"Done!\nArchived to ${ZIP_FILENAME} and copied module.js.\"
+    - name: Create files (module.zip, module.json) for release
+      run: > 
+        mkdir -p dist 
+        && git archive --format zip --output dist/module.zip HEAD:src 
+        && cp src/module.json dist/ 
+        && echo \"Done!\nArchived to ${ZIP_FILENAME} and copied module.js.\"
     
-    - run: echo $(ls -lah)
+    - name: Setting commit message variable
+      id: commit-message
+      # Per 
+      # https://docs.github.com/en/actions/writing-workflows/choosing-what-your-workflow-does/workflow-commands-for-github-actions#example-of-a-multiline-string
+      run: |
+        {
+          echo 'COMMIT_MESSAGE<<EOF'
+          git log -1 --pretty=%B
+          echo EOF
+        } >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+        
+    - name: retreive commit message
+      run: echo "commit message is ${{ steps.commit-message.outputs.COMMIT_MESSAGE }}"
 
     # Create a release for this specific version
     - name: Update Release with Files
@@ -49,3 +57,5 @@ jobs:
         files: |-
             ./dist/module.json
             ./dist/module.zip
+        body: |-
+          ${{ steps.commit-message.outputs.COMMIT_MESSAGE }}

.secrets

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-TEST=123
-GITHUB_TOKEN=90b74545400305cb379a38d2c442d29d3aa911a4

.vscode/tasks.json

@@ -3,10 +3,16 @@
   // for the documentation about the tasks.json format
   "version": "2.0.0",
   "tasks": [
+    {
+      "label": "commit and new release",
+      "type": "shell",
+      "command": "TAG=$(date +\"%Y%m%d.%H%M%S\"); git add . && git commit -m \"$TAG\" && git push origin main && tea release create --title \"$TAG\" --tag=\"v$TAG\"",
+      "problemMatcher": []
+    },
     {
       "label": "new release",
       "type": "shell",
-      "command": "TAG=$(date +\"%Y%m%d.%H%M%S\"); git add . && git commit -m \"$TAG\" && git tag \"v$TAG\" && git push origin main --tags && tea release create --title \"$TAG\" --tag=\"$TAG\"",
+      "command": "TAG=$(date +\"%Y%m%d.%H%M%S\"); git push origin main && tea release create --title \"$TAG\" --tag=\"v$TAG\"",
       "problemMatcher": []
     }
   ]