Clone the profile's release.yml file if missing

[ekohl]

If the .github/release.yml file is missing then this clones it from the profile repository. This allows setting an organization wide default without having to include the config in every repository.

Currently completely untested. Ideally it should also deal with the file not being present in the profile. Testing matrix:

	missing in profile	present in profile
present in repo
missing in repo

[rwaffen]

nice. this looks clean and simple!
and this checkout is tan locate in the local file system ".github/release.yml"? i will test this later on.

[rwaffen]

this does not work. the gh command from the action does not use the local version of .github/release.yml. This is somehow done differently :[ . if the release.yml is not present in the repo before triggering the action it is completely ignored.

i changed it a bit and tried it a few times in my company org, but had no success at all :[

      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

      - name: Check for local release.yml
        id: check_file
        run: |
          if [ ! -f .github/release.yml ]; then
            echo "RELEASE_YML_MISSING=true" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
          fi

      - name: Checkout Upstream-Repository (if release.yml is missing)
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        if: steps.check_file.outputs.RELEASE_YML_MISSING == 'true'
        with:
          repository: "${{ github.repository_owner }}/.github"
          path: upstream
          sparse-checkout: .github/release.yml
          sparse-checkout-cone-mode: false

      - name: Copy release.yml (if missing)
        if: steps.check_file.outputs.RELEASE_YML_MISSING == 'true'
        run: |
          cp upstream/.github/release.yml .github/release.yml

      - name: Create Release Page
        shell: bash
        env:
          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
        run: gh release create ${{ github.ref_name }} --generate-notes

[rwaffen]

i think ill try this now:
https://github.com/marketplace/actions/file-sync

[ekohl]

I don't even see where in https://github.com/cli/cli the file release.yml is used in the first place. https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/releasing-projects-on-github/automatically-generated-release-notes#configuring-automatically-generated-release-notes clearly describes this file, but what determines this? Is it done server side?

[rwaffen]

I also didn't find where it is parsed/used. I also think it's some server side magic :[