append extra file changes in pull request

[gengjiawen]

I have other files to squash into the release pr. E.g version number in docs.

Is there an easy way to do this ? My thought is to add an extra-files to do this ?

      - uses: GoogleCloudPlatform/release-please-action@v2
        id: release
        with:
          package-name: monkey-rust
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          release-type: rust
          extra-files: node patch-my-file.js		

This also will fix https://github.com/google-github-actions/release-please-action/issues/180

My current workaround is to change gengjiawen/monkey-rust#57 directly, but it's cumbersome.

cc @bcoe

[bcoe]

Seems like a reasonable feature request, I'm just not sure if it would be better implemented in the action or release-please itself.

[gengjiawen]

Also I think I need to get version number for the context, maybe through process.env ?

[erezrokah]

We use the following approach to add commits to release PRs:
https://github.com/netlify/delta-action/blob/bcf66a5aef6897c7cc91cfff5a053874da22cbad/.github/workflows/prepare.yml#L26

if that helps. See https://github.com/stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action

[gengjiawen]

Is this already implemented in googleapis/release-please#852 ? @chingor13

[gengjiawen]

Friendly ping

[gengjiawen]

Thanks to @erezrokah , the workaround working. But I don't know why it no longer triggered for newly created release.

https://github.com/gengjiawen/monkey-rust/blob/main/.github/workflows/prepare-release.yml

https://github.com/gengjiawen/monkey-rust/actions/workflows/prepare-release.yml

[jcornaz]

@bcoe This is indeed already available in releaes-please itself: googleapis/release-please#1157

We only need the extra-files argument on the github-action.