Tag and release and upload

Creates a tag, release, and uploads assets based on the version string specified. But there are already dozens of these, including ones created by GitHub, right? Well I did ths for 2 reasons.

1. To learn how to build GitHub workflows and actions
2. This doesn't fail if something already exists! The logic is:
   • Check for existing tag
     • Create it if it doesn't exist
   • Check for existing release for the tag
     • Create it if it doesn't exit
   • Check for each specified asset in the release
     • If the asset already exists
       • if overwrite, then delete it and upload the new version
     • else
       • Upload

I designed this to work with the actions AssemblyInfo Version and .Net SDK Project file Version. The idea is if I want a new release, I can change the assembly version attribute in my Visual Studio project, and push. This will create a new release when the version number changes, but will do nothing if the version already exists (instead of failing).

Usage

Create new .github/workflows/my-workflow.yml file:

name: .NET Core
on:
  push:
    branches: [ master ]
  pull_requests:
    branches: [ master ]

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: Setup .NET Core
        uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v1
        with:
          dotnet-version: 3.1.101

      - name: Build
        run: |
          dotnet build -c Release
          zip -r binaries.zip ./MyProject/bin/release/netcoreapp3.1
          zip -r otherstuff.zip ./otherstuff
          
      # Get the assembly version, use this as the tag.
      # That way, to do a new release, just update the assembly version on the next commit
      - name: Get Assembly Version
        id: get_version
        uses: jasondavis303/net-sdk-proj-file-version@v1.0.1
        with: 
          PROJ_FILE: MyProject/MyProject.csproj        
      
      - name: Tag and Release
        uses: jasondavis303/tag-and-release-and-upload@v1.2.0
        with:
          github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          
          # Use the version from the previous step
          version: v${{ steps.get_version.outputs.ASSEMBLY_VERSION }}
          
          assets: '[ "binaries.zip", "otherstuff.zip" ]'
          overwrite: false          

Inputs

Input	Description
github-token	Needed to create tags, releases and uploads
version	Version of the tag/release to create
assets	Optional: json array of filenames to upload, relative to the root of the repository
overwrite	Optional: weather to overwrite existing assets