The script was relying on the external git-flow tool and on a local
`git config gitflow.*` initialisation, which made its behaviour depend on
the machine setup and hid what was actually done to the branches.
The release branch is now created with `git checkout -b`, and the release
is finished with explicit merge, tag, back-merge and branch deletion
commands. The merge and tag messages are provided explicitly so that the
generated history stays identical to the previous releases. Each step now
aborts the script with a clear message when it fails, instead of letting
the script continue.
Note that tools/release/release.sh (V1) still uses git flow.
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`git flow release finish` opened the editor three times, and the content was
never edited: twice for the merge commits, where the message generated by git is
always kept, and once for the message of the annotated tag, where a placeholder
was typed by hand. The last tags carry the message "tag" for that reason.
GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT=no keeps the merge messages git already generates, and -m
provides the tag message. git flow appends the tag name to that message, so the
tag of the next release will read "Release v26.09.0".
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releaseV2.sh is a copy of release.sh in which the GitHub CLI is mandatory and
does what was previously done by hand: it finds and waits for the release.yml
run, downloads and extracts its artifacts, creates the pre-release with its 6
assets and the generated release notes, and prepends those notes to CHANGES.md.
It also compares the version code and version name of the signed artifacts to
the expected values instead of asking the user to check them, and no longer
needs ELEMENT_GITHUB_TOKEN, since the CLI uses its own credentials. release.sh
is left untouched, so that the next release can be done with releaseV2.sh while
keeping a way back if something goes wrong. The installation documentation is
also fixed, as it referred to an asset name that does not exist anymore.
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Benoit Marty
Jorge Martin Espinosa