Add Release Note (feature): The new, experimental git backfill command [was added](https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/pull/5172): It helps fetching relevant Git objects smartly in a partial, sparse clone.
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| name: Add Release Note | |
| run-name: 'Add Release Note (${{ inputs.type }}): ${{ inputs.message }}' | |
| on: | |
| workflow_dispatch: | |
| inputs: | |
| type: | |
| description: The type of release note (must be blurb, feature or bug) | |
| required: true | |
| type: string | |
| message: | |
| description: The release note | |
| required: true | |
| type: string | |
| jobs: | |
| add-release-note: | |
| runs-on: ubuntu-latest | |
| permissions: | |
| contents: write | |
| steps: | |
| - name: Configure Git author | |
| uses: actions/github-script@v7 | |
| with: | |
| script: | | |
| const username = '${{ github.triggering_actor }}' | |
| const fallBackEmail = `${username.replace('[bot]', '-bot')}@users.noreply.github.com` | |
| const { data: { name, email } } = await github.rest.users.getByUsername({ username }) | |
| core.exportVariable('GIT_AUTHOR_NAME', name || username) | |
| core.exportVariable('GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL', email || fallBackEmail) | |
| core.exportVariable('GIT_COMMITTER_NAME', name || username) | |
| core.exportVariable('GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL', email || fallBackEmail) | |
| - name: Partial & sparse clone | |
| run: | | |
| git clone --depth=1 --filter=blob:none --no-checkout --single-branch \ | |
| -b ${{ github.ref_name }} https://github.com/${{ github.repository }} . && | |
| # need only `add-release-notes.js` and `ReleaseNotes.md`, really | |
| git sparse-checkout set . && | |
| git checkout | |
| - name: Add release note | |
| env: | |
| TYPE: ${{ github.event.inputs.type }} | |
| MESSAGE: ${{ github.event.inputs.message }} | |
| run: node ./add-release-note.js --commit "$TYPE" "$MESSAGE" | |
| - name: Push updates | |
| run: | | |
| git -c http.extraHeader="Authorization: Basic $(printf 'x-access-token:${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}' | base64 -w 0)" push origin HEAD |