Fix failing deploy pipeline if release branch does not yet exist

Author: brainelectronics

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -76,11 +76,13 @@ jobs:
           cat changelog.json
           DESIRED_BRANCH="release/${LATEST_CHANGELOG_VERSION}"
           echo "DESIRED_BRANCH: ${DESIRED_BRANCH}"
+          set +e
           git ls-remote \
             --exit-code \
             --heads \
             origin ${DESIRED_BRANCH} >/dev/null 2>&1
           EXIT_CODE=$?
+          set -e
           echo "EXIT_CODE: ${EXIT_CODE}"
           if [[ ${EXIT_CODE} == '0' ]]; then
             echo "Git branch '${DESIRED_BRANCH}' exists on remote"

.github/workflows/test-release.yaml

@@ -73,6 +73,43 @@ jobs:
           name: dist_repo.${{ github.event.repository.name }}_sha.${{ github.sha }}_build.${{ github.run_number }}
           path: dist/*.tar.gz
           retention-days: 14
+      - name: Test creation of release branch
+        run: |
+          git config user.name "github-actions"
+          git config user.email "github-actions@github.com"
+          LATEST_CHANGELOG_VERSION=$(jq -r '.info.version' changelog.json)
+          echo "LATEST_CHANGELOG_VERSION: ${LATEST_CHANGELOG_VERSION}"
+          echo "changelog.json file:"
+          cat changelog.json
+          DESIRED_BRANCH="release/${LATEST_CHANGELOG_VERSION}"
+          echo "DESIRED_BRANCH: ${DESIRED_BRANCH}"
+          set +e
+          git ls-remote \
+            --exit-code \
+            --heads \
+            origin ${DESIRED_BRANCH} >/dev/null 2>&1
+          EXIT_CODE=$?
+          set -e
+          echo "EXIT_CODE: ${EXIT_CODE}"
+          if [[ ${EXIT_CODE} == '0' ]]; then
+            echo "Git branch '${DESIRED_BRANCH}' exists on remote"
+            git checkout release/${LATEST_CHANGELOG_VERSION}
+          elif [[ ${EXIT_CODE} == '2' ]]; then
+            echo "Git branch '${DESIRED_BRANCH}' does not exist on remote"
+            git checkout -b release/${LATEST_CHANGELOG_VERSION}
+          fi
+          git diff > diff.log
+          echo "Diff in repo"
+          cat diff.log
+          if [[ $(git status --porcelain --untracked-files=no | wc -l) -gt 0 ]]; then
+            echo "changed files available"
+            git add package.json changelog.md be_upy_blink/version.py
+            git status
+            git commit -m "chore: files for release ${LATEST_CHANGELOG_VERSION}"
+            git push -u origin release/${LATEST_CHANGELOG_VERSION}
+          else
+            echo "nothing new to commit and push"
+          fi
       - name: Publish package
         uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1.13
         with: