Appending text to the release body

[elect86]

Hi,

as titled, I'd like to append text to the release body, since I'm building nightly's, I'd like each platform to report the number of failing tests directly in the body

However the current implementation looks like is replacing it in toto

[ncipollo]

Appending text to the release body is a bit out of scope for the release action itself, but you should be able to achieve via a shell script action in the workflow. I think this easiest solution would be:

• Create a file in your repo which represents the nightly build body (something like nightly.md).
• As part of your workflow, append whatever output you want to nightly.md. For examplesrun_my_tests.sh >> nightly.md
• Check that file in - git add nightly.md;git commit -m "nightly bump"
• Push - git push (This step is important for the next run of the action)
• Run the release action. Pass nightly.md into bodyFile.

Alternatively, you could fetch the release, extract the body, append to it, then pass it back into the release action though I'm not sure how complicated that would get - https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/repos#get-a-release-by-tag-name

[elect86]

Nice idea, I'll give it a try, thanks!