Update tagging workflow to handle v5-09-59 series

.github/workflows/main.yml

@@ -1,42 +1,42 @@
+---
 name: Prepare AliRoot tag
 
-on:
+'on':
   workflow_dispatch:
     inputs:
       tag:
         description: 'Tag to prepare'
         required: true
         default: 'v5-09-XXy'
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write  # to push a tag and create a release
+
 jobs:
   build:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
-    - name: Decide which branch to use
-      run: |
-        cat << EOF >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-        branch=$(echo ${{ github.event.inputs.tag }}-patches | sed -e's/[a-z][a-z]*-patches$/-patches/')
-        EOF
-      id: decide_release_branch
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-      with:
-        ref: "master"
-    - name: Tag branch (or create one before tagging if does not exists)
-      run: |
-        set -x
-        git fetch origin
-        git checkout -B ${{ steps.decide_release_branch.outputs.branch }} origin/${{ steps.decide_release_branch.outputs.branch }}
-        git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
-        git config --global user.name "ALICE Action Bot"
-        git tag ${{ github.event.inputs.tag }}
-        git push --set-upstream origin ${{ github.event.inputs.tag }}
-    - name: Create Release
-      id: create_release
-      uses: actions/create-release@v1
-      env:
-        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} # This token is provided by Actions, you do not need to create your own token
-      with:
-        tag_name: ${{ github.event.inputs.tag }}
-        release_name: ${{ github.event.inputs.tag }}
-        draft: false
-        prerelease: false
+      - name: Decide which branch to use
+        run: |
+          case "$TAG" in
+            v5-09-59*) echo branch=master ;;
+            *) echo "branch=$(echo "$TAG-patches" | sed -r 's/[a-z]+-patches$/-patches/')" ;;
+          esac >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+        id: decide_release_branch
+        env:
+          TAG: ${{ github.event.inputs.tag }}
+
+      - name: Tag and create release
+        uses: alisw/release-action@v1
+        with:
+          name: ${{ github.event.inputs.tag }}
+          # The tag is created from the given commit if it does not exist yet.
+          tag: ${{ github.event.inputs.tag }}
+          commit: ${{ steps.decide_release_branch.outputs.branch }}
+          draft: false
+          prerelease: false
+          # GitHub often chooses the wrong tag to compare against for
+          # generating release notes -- it'll generate a diff e.g. between
+          # v5-09-56-patches and master.
+          generateReleaseNotes: false