Convenient shell script to create an orphan release useful for hosting binary assets (e.g images) used in documentation

github_create_resources_release.sh

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin <[email protected]>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
tag_name=collection-archives
release_name=CollectionArchives
git checkout --orphan=${tag_name}
git rm -rf .

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Used for both tag title and release description
description="Binary files used in ${proj}"

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
org=InsightSoftwareConsortium
proj=insight-journal.org-midas-archive

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
cat << EOF > README.md
This branch of the repository does not contain any source code.

It is a placeholder associated with the [${release_name}](https://github.com/${org}/${proj}/releases/tag/${tag_name}) release on GitHub (GitHub only allows creating a release if it is associated with a tag or branch).
EOF

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Get the date of the oldest commit. This ensures the "DocsResources" release
# will always be listed last.
commit_date=$(git log --reverse --format=%aD origin/main | head -n 1)
echo "commit_date [${commit_date}]"

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
git add README.md

GIT_COMMITTER_DATE=${commit_date} git commit --date="${commit_date}" -m "DOC: Add branch for ${tag_name}

This branch of the repository does not contain any source code.

It is a placeholder associated with the [${release_name}](https://github.com/${org}/${proj}/releases/tag/${tag_name})
release on GitHub (GitHub only allows creating a release if it is
associated with a tag or branch)."

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Create tag
git tag -s -m "${description}" ${tag_name}

git push origin refs/tags/${tag_name}:refs/tags/${tag_name}

hub release create -m "${release_name}

${description}
" ${tag_name}