how to add .zip file as asset from a pull request that generates a new release tag

[daniloab]

Hi, there.

I have a script that uses the git-js, which is an awesome lib, to generate a new pull request with a new tag for a release.

Today I can add files to this pull request and also generate a new tag release with it.

I want to know how can I add a .zip file as an asset to this release. This is how my code is working today:

    await git().checkout(['-B', branchName]);
    await git().add([
      'package.json',
      'CHANGELOG.md',
      myzipfile.zip,
      '-f',
    ]);
    await git().commit(`build(change-log): ${tag}`, [], '-n');
    await git().addAnnotatedTag(`${tag}`, `build(tag): ${tag}`);
    await git().push(['--follow-tags', '-u', 'origin', branchName]);

branchName: variable that explains itself
tag: tag of the new release

Inside this workflow, I generate a .zip file and I want to add it as an asset to this release tag.

How can I do it?

[steveukx]

Hi, if you are using GitHub as your remote, any tag is available as github.com/user/repo/tags and automatically have a downloadable zip/tar of the content of the repo in that tag. (eg: https://github.com/steveukx/git-js/tags)

As best I am aware, you would need to use the Github APIs - for example in the package https://www.npmjs.com/package/@octokit/rest

[daniloab]

Hi, if you are using GitHub as your remote, any tag is available as github.com/user/repo/tags and automatically have a downloadable zip/tar of the content of the repo in that tag. (eg: https://github.com/steveukx/git-js/tags)

As best I am aware, you would need to use the Github APIs - for example in the package https://www.npmjs.com/package/@octokit/rest

Hi @steveukx Im already using the octokit to open the pull request after with this function after prepare it with the git() functions:

const createPullRequest = async (branchName, tag) => {
  if (!process.env.GITHUB_TOKEN) {
    return;
  }

  const octokit = new Octokit({
    auth: process.env.GITHUB_TOKEN,
  });

  const now = moment().format('YYYY-MM-DD');

  // https://octokit.github.io/rest.js/#api-Repos-getReleases
  // https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/releases/#list-releases-for-a-repository
  const latestReleases = await octokit.repos.listReleases({
    owner,
    repo,
    per_page: 1,
  });
  const latestReleaseTag =
    latestReleases && latestReleases.data && latestReleases.data.length
      ? latestReleases.data[0].tag_name
      : 'master';

  await octokit.pulls.create({
    owner,
    repo,
    title: `Deploy Production - ${tag} - ${now}`,
    head: branchName,
    base: 'master',
    body: `https://github.com/${owner}/${repo}/compare/${latestReleaseTag}...master`,
  });
};

I want to add a specific .zip file to the assets when the tag is released. So, this is responsible for octokit not from git-js?