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Nightly Build

Nightly Build #494

Workflow file for this run

name: Nightly Build
on:
schedule:
- cron: '15 7 * * *'
jobs:
# Only execute if the current commit does _not_ have a tag that starts with "nightly/".
# This is intended to avoid creating a nightly build if there's no changes.
check-should-execute:
runs-on: windows-latest
outputs:
should_execute: ${{ steps.should_execute_step.outputs.should_execute }}
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v3
- name: Get tags
run: git fetch --tags origin
- id: should_execute_step
shell: bash
run: |
git tag --points-at ${{ github.sha }}
if [ $(git tag --list nightly/* --points-at HEAD) ]; then
echo "Nightly tag found, skipping build."
else
echo "No nightly tag found, building."
echo "should_execute=true" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
fi
build:
needs: check-should-execute
if: ${{ needs.check-should-execute.outputs.should_execute }}
uses: ./.github/workflows/build.yaml
create-nightly-release:
runs-on: windows-latest
needs: [check-should-execute, build]
if: ${{ needs.check-should-execute.outputs.should_execute }}
permissions:
contents: write
steps:
- name: Download artifacts
uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
with:
path: release-artifacts/
- name: Get the current date (UTC)
id: get-date
shell: bash
run: |
echo "nightly_date=$(date -u +%Y-%m-%d)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
# actions/download-artifact will unzip each artifact to its own directory, so we need to re-zip them.
# We'll also replace the commit SHA with the date in the zip file name.
- name: Re-zip each artifact
shell: powershell
run: |
Get-ChildItem release-artifacts -Directory |
Foreach-Object {
Compress-Archive -Path $_.FullName -DestinationPath ("release-artifacts/" + ($_ -replace "[0-9a-z]{40}","${{ steps.get-date.outputs.nightly_date }}") + ".zip")
}
- name: Create a release
uses: ncipollo/release-action@v1
with:
artifactErrorsFailBuild: true
artifacts: "release-artifacts/*.zip"
commit: ${{ github.sha }}
generateReleaseNotes: true
name: Nightly build for ${{ steps.get-date.outputs.nightly_date }}
prerelease: true
skipIfReleaseExists: true
tag: nightly/${{ steps.get-date.outputs.nightly_date }}