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-rw-r--r--.github/workflows/build.yaml8
-rw-r--r--.github/workflows/which_branch.py77
2 files changed, 80 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yaml b/.github/workflows/build.yaml
index 895fb00506..abf14b015e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yaml
@@ -178,11 +178,9 @@ jobs:
then viewer_channel="${GITHUB_REF_NAME%#*}"
export viewer_channel="${viewer_channel//_/ }"
# Since GITHUB_REF_NAME is a tag rather than a branch, we need
- # to discover to what branch this tag corresponds. Get the tip
- # commit (for the tag) and then ask for branches containing it.
- # Assume GitHub cloned only this tag and its containing branch.
- viewer_branch="$(git branch --contains "$(git log -n 1 --format=%h)" |
- grep -v '(HEAD')"
+ # to discover to what branch this tag corresponds.
+ viewer_branch="$(python3 .github/workflows/which_branch.py \
+ --token "${{ github.token }}" ${{ github.workflow_sha }})"
else export viewer_channel="Second Life Test"
viewer_branch="${GITHUB_REF_NAME}"
fi
diff --git a/.github/workflows/which_branch.py b/.github/workflows/which_branch.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..802ea44b5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/which_branch.py
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""\
+@file which_branch.py
+@author Nat Goodspeed
+@date 2023-11-14
+@brief Discover which git branch(es) correspond to a given commit hash.
+
+$LicenseInfo:firstyear=2023&license=viewerlgpl$
+Copyright (c) 2023, Linden Research, Inc.
+$/LicenseInfo$
+"""
+
+import github
+import re
+import sys
+import subprocess
+
+class Error(Exception):
+ pass
+
+def branches_for(token, commit, repo=None):
+ """
+ Use the GitHub REST API to discover which branch(es) correspond to the
+ passed commit hash. The commit string can actually be any of the ways git
+ permits to identify a commit:
+
+ https://git-scm.com/docs/gitrevisions#_specifying_revisions
+
+ branches_for() generates a (possibly empty) sequence of all the branches
+ of the specified repo for which the specified commit is the tip.
+
+ If repo is omitted or None, assume the current directory is a local clone
+ whose 'origin' remote is the GitHub repository of interest.
+ """
+ if not repo:
+ url = subprocess.check_output(['git', 'remote', 'get-url', 'origin'],
+ text=True)
+ parts = re.split(r'[:/]', url.rstrip())
+ repo = '/'.join(parts[-2:]).removesuffix('.git')
+
+ gh = github.MainClass.Github(token)
+ grepo = gh.get_repo(repo)
+ for branch in grepo.get_branches():
+ try:
+ delta = grepo.compare(base=commit, head=branch.name)
+ except github.GithubException:
+ continue
+
+ if delta.ahead_by == 0 and delta.behind_by == 0:
+ yield branch
+
+def main(*raw_args):
+ from argparse import ArgumentParser
+ parser = ArgumentParser(description=
+"%(prog)s reports the branch(es) for which the specified commit hash is the tip.",
+ epilog="""\
+When GitHub Actions launches a tag build, it checks out the specific changeset
+identified by the tag, and so 'git branch' reports detached HEAD. But we use
+tag builds to build a GitHub 'release' of the tip of a particular branch, and
+it's useful to be able to identify which branch that is.
+""")
+ parser.add_argument('-t', '--token', required=True,
+ help="""GitHub REST API access token""")
+ parser.add_argument('-r', '--repo',
+ help="""GitHub repository name, in the form OWNER/REPOSITORY""")
+ parser.add_argument('commit',
+ help="""commit hash at the tip of the sought branch""")
+
+ args = parser.parse_args(raw_args)
+ for branch in branches_for(token=args.token, commit=args.commit, repo=args.repo):
+ print(branch.name)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+ try:
+ sys.exit(main(*sys.argv[1:]))
+ except Error as err:
+ sys.exit(str(err))