fix-release-please

name	fix-release-please
description	Fix bugs in the forked release-please ecosystem (vm0-ai/release-please + vm0-ai/release-please-action)
context	fork

Fix a bug in the project's forked release-please core library, then rebuild the GitHub Action.

Background

Repo	Fork of	Branch	Role
vm0-ai/release-please	googleapis/release-please	vm0	Core library (TypeScript/Node)
vm0-ai/release-please-action	googleapis/release-please-action	vm0	GitHub Action wrapping the core library

• .github/workflows/release-please.yml uses vm0-ai/release-please-action@vm0
• The action's package.json has "release-please": "github:vm0-ai/release-please#vm0"
• Bugs are almost always in the core library, not the action

Args

Your args are: $ARGUMENTS

Parse the args to understand what bug to fix. If no args provided, ask the user what the issue is.

Workflow

Step 1: Clone both repos

cd /tmp && rm -rf release-please release-please-action
git clone https://github.com/vm0-ai/release-please.git
git clone https://github.com/vm0-ai/release-please-action.git
cd /tmp/release-please && git config user.email "[e-mail]" && git config user.name "vm0-ai"
cd /tmp/release-please-action && git config user.email "[e-mail]" && git config user.name "vm0-ai"

Step 2: Fix in release-please core

Create a fix branch from main, make the fix, then cherry-pick to vm0:

cd /tmp/release-please
git checkout main
git checkout -b fix/<description>
# ... make the fix, write tests to verify, commit ...
git push origin fix/<description>
git checkout vm0
git cherry-pick <commit-sha>
git push origin vm0

Step 3: Rebuild release-please-action

This step is always required after any core library change:

cd /tmp/release-please-action
git checkout vm0
npm install
npm run build
git add package-lock.json dist/index.js
git commit -m "fix: <same description as the core fix>"
git push origin vm0

Step 4: Verify

cd /tmp/release-please && git log --oneline vm0 -5
cd /tmp/release-please-action && git log --oneline vm0 -5

Report what was changed.

Syncing upstream

If the user asks to sync with upstream:

cd /tmp/release-please
git remote add upstream https://github.com/googleapis/release-please.git
git fetch upstream
git checkout vm0
git rebase upstream/main
# Resolve conflicts if any
git push origin vm0 --force-with-lease

Then rebuild the action (Step 3).