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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughA new GitHub Actions workflow was added to facilitate manual releases. The workflow accepts version and branch inputs, manages version updates across package.json files, creates git tags and draft releases, handles next version development preparation when releasing from main, builds and pushes a container image, and publishes the final release. Changes
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In @.github/workflows/release.yaml:
- Around line 143-145: The workflow currently always pushes the "latest" tag;
update the tags expression so "latest" is only included when the release branch
is main by gating it on github.event.inputs.branch == 'main'. Concretely, change
the tags block to conditionally include "latest" (e.g. use an expression
referencing github.event.inputs.branch and needs.tag.outputs.extVersion) so
non-main branches push only the version tag (needs.tag.outputs.extVersion) while
main pushes both the version and "latest".
- Around line 110-115: Remove the redundant ready-for-review step by deleting
the gh pr ready invocation and its accompanying echo; specifically, remove the
echo "➡️ Flag the PR as being ready for review" and the gh pr ready
"${pullRequestUrl}" call since the PR created by pullRequestUrl (via gh pr
create) is not a draft by default.
- Around line 62-74: The workflow sets git user.name but not user.email which
causes git commit (and git commit --amend) to fail; add a git config --local
user.email entry using the actor noreply address (e.g. "${{ github.actor
}}@users.noreply.github.com") wherever git config --local user.name is set
before the commit operations so both the commit in the tagging step and the
commit --amend in the bump step succeed; update the blocks around the existing
git config --local user.name and the git commit / git commit --amend commands to
include the corresponding git config --local user.email line.
- Around line 53-58: The current TAG_UTIL step stores the raw
github.event.inputs.version into TAG_PATTERN and writes githubTag=v$TAG_PATTERN
and extVersion=$TAG_PATTERN without validation or quoting, which can cause
double "v" prefixes and allow shell/sed injection when later used in git tag/git
push/git checkout/sed; update the TAG_UTIL logic to (1) normalize the input by
stripping any leading "v" (so a user inputting "v1.2.3" becomes "1.2.3"), (2)
validate the remainder against a strict regex like
/^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(-[A-Za-z0-9._-]+)?$/ and fail the job if it doesn't
match, (3) construct githubTag by prepending a single "v"
(githubTag=v${CLEAN_VERSION}) and set extVersion=${CLEAN_VERSION}, and (4)
ensure downstream uses of githubTag/extVersion in git tag, git push, git
checkout and sed are quoted/parameterized so the sanitized values are not
interpreted by the shell or sed (references: TAG_UTIL, TAG_PATTERN, githubTag,
extVersion, and commands git tag/git push/git checkout/sed).
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| - name: Generate tag utilities | ||
| id: TAG_UTIL | ||
| run: | | ||
| TAG_PATTERN=${{ github.event.inputs.version }} | ||
| echo "githubTag=v$TAG_PATTERN" >> ${GITHUB_OUTPUT} | ||
| echo "extVersion=$TAG_PATTERN" >> ${GITHUB_OUTPUT} |
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Validate and normalize version before using it in commands.
Lines 56–58 accept the manual version input without validation, then pass it unquoted into git tag, git push, git checkout, and sed commands (lines 65–67, 76–77, 99–101, 116). This allows shell injection if the input contains metacharacters like ;, &, backticks, or $(...), and sed injection if the input contains / or other regex special characters.
Additionally, if a user provides input like v1.2.3, the workflow produces tag vv1.2.3 instead of v1.2.3.
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- name: Generate tag utilities
id: TAG_UTIL
+ env:
+ RELEASE_VERSION: ${{ github.event.inputs.version }}
run: |
- TAG_PATTERN=${{ github.event.inputs.version }}
- echo "githubTag=v$TAG_PATTERN" >> ${GITHUB_OUTPUT}
- echo "extVersion=$TAG_PATTERN" >> ${GITHUB_OUTPUT}
+ TAG_PATTERN="$RELEASE_VERSION"
+ if [[ ! "$TAG_PATTERN" =~ ^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$ ]]; then
+ echo "Expected version format <major>.<minor>.<patch>, got: $TAG_PATTERN" >&2
+ exit 1
+ fi
+ {
+ echo "githubTag=v$TAG_PATTERN"
+ echo "extVersion=$TAG_PATTERN"
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| - name: Generate tag utilities | |
| id: TAG_UTIL | |
| run: | | |
| TAG_PATTERN=${{ github.event.inputs.version }} | |
| echo "githubTag=v$TAG_PATTERN" >> ${GITHUB_OUTPUT} | |
| echo "extVersion=$TAG_PATTERN" >> ${GITHUB_OUTPUT} | |
| - name: Generate tag utilities | |
| id: TAG_UTIL | |
| env: | |
| RELEASE_VERSION: ${{ github.event.inputs.version }} | |
| run: | | |
| TAG_PATTERN="$RELEASE_VERSION" | |
| if [[ ! "$TAG_PATTERN" =~ ^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$ ]]; then | |
| echo "Expected version format <major>.<minor>.<patch>, got: $TAG_PATTERN" >&2 | |
| exit 1 | |
| fi | |
| { | |
| echo "githubTag=v$TAG_PATTERN" | |
| echo "extVersion=$TAG_PATTERN" | |
| } >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT" |
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against the current code and only fix it if needed.
In @.github/workflows/release.yaml around lines 53 - 58, The current TAG_UTIL
step stores the raw github.event.inputs.version into TAG_PATTERN and writes
githubTag=v$TAG_PATTERN and extVersion=$TAG_PATTERN without validation or
quoting, which can cause double "v" prefixes and allow shell/sed injection when
later used in git tag/git push/git checkout/sed; update the TAG_UTIL logic to
(1) normalize the input by stripping any leading "v" (so a user inputting
"v1.2.3" becomes "1.2.3"), (2) validate the remainder against a strict regex
like /^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(-[A-Za-z0-9._-]+)?$/ and fail the job if it
doesn't match, (3) construct githubTag by prepending a single "v"
(githubTag=v${CLEAN_VERSION}) and set extVersion=${CLEAN_VERSION}, and (4)
ensure downstream uses of githubTag/extVersion in git tag, git push, git
checkout and sed are quoted/parameterized so the sanitized values are not
interpreted by the shell or sed (references: TAG_UTIL, TAG_PATTERN, githubTag,
extVersion, and commands git tag/git push/git checkout/sed).
| git config --local user.name ${{ github.actor }} | ||
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| # Add the new version in package.json file | ||
| sed -i "s#version\":\ \"\(.*\)\",#version\":\ \"${{ steps.TAG_UTIL.outputs.extVersion }}\",#g" package.json | ||
| sed -i "s#version\":\ \"\(.*\)\",#version\":\ \"${{ steps.TAG_UTIL.outputs.extVersion }}\",#g" packages/backend/package.json | ||
| sed -i "s#version\":\ \"\(.*\)\",#version\":\ \"${{ steps.TAG_UTIL.outputs.extVersion }}\",#g" packages/api/package.json | ||
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| git add package.json | ||
| git add packages/backend/package.json | ||
| git add packages/api/package.json | ||
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| # commit the changes | ||
| git commit -m "chore: 🥁 tagging ${{ steps.TAG_UTIL.outputs.githubTag }} 🥳" |
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No, git commit does not strictly require user.email configuration in advance. Git falls back to environment variables (GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL, GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL, EMAIL), and if those fail, it attempts to auto-detect from the system username and hostname (e.g., 'user@host.(none)'), but this auto-detection fails with an error if it cannot form a valid email, preventing the commit. If user.name and user.email are unset and no valid fallback is available, attempting git commit produces an error like: * Please tell me who you are. Run git config --global user.email "you@example.com" git config --global user.name "Your Name" fatal: unable to auto-detect email address (got 'user@host.(none)') To succeed, you must either configure user.email (and user.name), use environment variables, or provide --author (though committer identity still needs resolution). Official git-commit docs confirm Git uses config user.email or fallbacks, but practice shows commits fail without valid identity resolution.
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- 1: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit/2.32.0.html
- 2: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29685337/git-commit-author-doesnt-work-when-global-not-set
- 3: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38061542/trouble-in-using-git-commit-m
- 4: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14662526/why-git-is-not-allowing-me-to-commit-even-after-configuration
- 5: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit/2.38.0.html
- 6: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22058041/commit-without-setting-user-name-and-email
- 7: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42335599/please-tell-me-who-you-are-when-using-ssh-key
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- 10: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11656761/git-please-tell-me-who-you-are-error
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- 1: https://github.com/actions/checkout
- 2: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/checkout
- 3: https://github.com/actions/checkout/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
- 4: Upgrade checkout to v1.1.0 to better support scripting git. actions/checkout#56
- 5: README: Suggest
user.emailto be41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.comactions/checkout#1707
Configure user.email before both commit operations.
Only user.name is configured here. git commit on line 74 and git commit --amend on line 107 will both fail with "fatal: unable to auto-detect email address" without committer email, blocking the release and bump workflows.
Minimal fix
- name: tag
run: |
- git config --local user.name ${{ github.actor }}
+ git config --local user.name "${{ github.actor }}"
+ git config --local user.email "${{ github.actor }}@users.noreply.github.com"Add the same git config --local user.email "${{ github.actor }}@users.noreply.github.com" line before line 107 in the bump step.
Also applies to: 92-107
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against the current code and only fix it if needed.
In @.github/workflows/release.yaml around lines 62 - 74, The workflow sets git
user.name but not user.email which causes git commit (and git commit --amend) to
fail; add a git config --local user.email entry using the actor noreply address
(e.g. "${{ github.actor }}@users.noreply.github.com") wherever git config
--local user.name is set before the commit operations so both the commit in the
tagging step and the commit --amend in the bump step succeed; update the blocks
around the existing git config --local user.name and the git commit / git commit
--amend commands to include the corresponding git config --local user.email
line.
| pullRequestUrl=$(gh pr create --title "chore: 📢 Bump version to ${bumpedVersion}" --body-file /tmp/pr-title --head "${bumpedBranchName}" --base "main") | ||
| echo "📢 Pull request created: ${pullRequestUrl}" | ||
| echo "➡️ Flag the PR as being ready for review" | ||
| gh pr ready "${pullRequestUrl}" | ||
| echo "🔅 Mark the PR as being ok to be merged automatically" | ||
| gh pr merge "${pullRequestUrl}" --auto --rebase |
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The default state for gh pr create is ready for review (not draft). To create a draft pull request, use the --draft flag. There is no built-in configuration to change the default to draft; a feature request for this was closed as not planned, with aliases suggested as a workaround (e.g., gh alias set draft-pr 'pr create --draft').
Citations:
- 1: Add way to create PRs as draft by default (with
gh pr create) cli/cli#11074 - 2: https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_pr_create
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- 2: Add
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Remove the redundant gh pr ready call.
The PR created on line 110 is already ready-for-review by default (without --draft), making the gh pr ready call on line 113 unnecessary.
Suggested fix
pullRequestUrl=$(gh pr create --title "chore: 📢 Bump version to ${bumpedVersion}" --body-file /tmp/pr-title --head "${bumpedBranchName}" --base "main")
echo "📢 Pull request created: ${pullRequestUrl}"
- echo "➡️ Flag the PR as being ready for review"
- gh pr ready "${pullRequestUrl}"
echo "🔅 Mark the PR as being ok to be merged automatically"
gh pr merge "${pullRequestUrl}" --auto --rebase🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against the current code and only fix it if needed.
In @.github/workflows/release.yaml around lines 110 - 115, Remove the redundant
ready-for-review step by deleting the gh pr ready invocation and its
accompanying echo; specifically, remove the echo "➡️ Flag the PR as being ready
for review" and the gh pr ready "${pullRequestUrl}" call since the PR created by
pullRequestUrl (via gh pr create) is not a draft by default.
| tags: | | ||
| latest | ||
| ${{ needs.tag.outputs.extVersion }} |
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Only publish latest from the main release line.
This workflow can release from arbitrary branches, but it always pushes latest. If a maintenance branch ships after a newer mainline release, latest moves backward and image consumers can silently pick up the wrong line. Gate latest behind github.event.inputs.branch == 'main'.
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against the current code and only fix it if needed.
In @.github/workflows/release.yaml around lines 143 - 145, The workflow
currently always pushes the "latest" tag; update the tags expression so "latest"
is only included when the release branch is main by gating it on
github.event.inputs.branch == 'main'. Concretely, change the tags block to
conditionally include "latest" (e.g. use an expression referencing
github.event.inputs.branch and needs.tag.outputs.extVersion) so non-main
branches push only the version tag (needs.tag.outputs.extVersion) while main
pushes both the version and "latest".
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Fixes #82