release-protected-branch.yml

# Before testing this workflow, please create a personal access token with following scopes:
# - repo
# - workflow
# - write:packages
# - delete:packages
# - user:email
# and name it "GH_RELEASE_TOKEN".
#
# Please take a short look at the conventional commits specification before using this action:
# https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/
#
# ******** NOTE ********
# If your repository default branch is **NOT** restricted,
# please use the default release workflow instead.
name: Release

# Events that trigger this workflow
on: [workflow_dispatch]

jobs:
  conventional-release:
    name: Conventional Commit Release
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout 📥
        uses: actions/checkout@v3.0.2
        with:
          persist-credentials: false
          fetch-depth: 0

      - name: Conventional Changelog Action 🎉
        id: changelog
        uses: TriPSs/conventional-changelog-action@v3.14.1
        with:
          github-token: ${{ secrets.GH_RELEASE_TOKEN }}
          git-user-name: ${{ github.actor }}
          git-user-email: "${{ github.actor }}@users.noreply.github.com"
          release-count: "0"
          version-file: "./project.json"
          skip-on-empty: "false"

      - name: Create Release 🪡
        id: create_release
        uses: actions/create-release@v1.1.4
        if: ${{ steps.changelog.outputs.skipped == 'false' }}
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GH_RELEASE_TOKEN }}
        with:
          tag_name: ${{ steps.changelog.outputs.tag }}
          release_name: ${{ steps.changelog.outputs.tag }}
          body: ${{ steps.changelog.outputs.clean_changelog }}

      - name: Create build environment 🗜
        run: |
          echo "tag=${TAG}" >> ~/.build-env
          echo "version=${VERSION}" >> ~/.build-env
          echo "skipped=${SKIPPED}" >> ~/.build-env
          echo "upload_url=${UPLOAD_URL}" >> ~/.build-env
          echo "html_url=${HTML_URL}" >> ~/.build-env
        env:
          TAG: ${{ steps.changelog.outputs.tag }}
          VERSION: ${{ steps.changelog.outputs.version }}
          SKIPPED: ${{ steps.changelog.outputs.skipped }}
          UPLOAD_URL: ${{ steps.create_release.outputs.upload_url }}
          HTML_URL: ${{ steps.create_release.outputs.html_url }}

      - name: Upload build environment 📤
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3.1.0
        with:
          name: build-env
          path: "~/.build-env"
          retention-days: 1