Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v1.9-rc0

> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:15:33AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>> 
>> > Junio, since you prepare such tarballs[1] anyway for kernel.org, it
>> > might be worth uploading them to the "Releases" page of git/git.  I
>> > imagine there is a programmatic way to do so via GitHub's API, but I
>> > don't know offhand. I can look into it if you are interested.
>> 
>> I already have a script that takes the three tarballs and uploads
>> them to two places, so adding GitHub as the third destination should
>> be a natural and welcome way to automate it.
>
> I came up with the script below, which you can use like:
>
>   ./script v1.8.2.3 git-1.8.2.3.tar.gz
>
> It expects the tag to already be pushed up to GitHub.  I'll leave
> sticking it on the "todo" branch and integrating it into RelUpload to
> you. This can also be used to backfill the old releases (though I looked
> on k.org and it seems to have only partial coverage).
>
> It sets the "prerelease" flag for -rc releases, but I did not otherwise
> fill in any fields, including the summary and description. GitHub seems
> to display reasonably if they are not set.

> -- >8 --
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> # usage: $0 <tag> <tarball>
>
> repo=git/git
>
> # replace this with however you store your oauth token
> # if you don't have one, make one here:
> # https://github.com/settings/tokens/new
> token() {
>   pass -n github.web.oauth

> }
>
> post() {
>   curl -H "Authorization: token $(token)" "$@"
> }
>
> # usage: create <tag-name>
> create() {
>   case "$1" in
>   *-rc*)
>     prerelease=true
>     ;;
>   *)
>     prerelease=false
>     ;;
>   esac
>
>   post -d '
>   {
>     "tag_name": "'"$1"'",
>     "prerelease": '"$prerelease"'
>   }' "https://api.github.com/repos/$repo/releases"
> }
>
> # use: upload <release-id> <filename>
> upload() {
>   url="https://uploads.github.com/repos/$repo/releases/$1/assets" &&
>   url="$url?name=$(basename $2)" &&
>   post -H "Content-Type: $(file -b --mime-type "$2")" \
>        --data-binary "@$2" \
>        "$url"
> }
>
> # This is a hack. If you don't mind a dependency on
> # perl's JSON (or another parser), we can do a lot better.
> extract_id() {
>   perl -lne '/"id":\s*(\d+)/ or next; print $1; exit 0'
> }
>
> create "$1" >release.json &&
> id=$(extract_id <release.json) &&
> upload "$id" "$2" >/dev/null &&
> rm -f release.json