# Step 1 (v2): Starts the v2 release process by creating a release/v2-candidate branch.

# Generates a changelog PR for review (step 2).

name: "Release v2: Cut"

on:

workflow_dispatch:

inputs:

commit_sha:

description: 'Commit SHA to cut from (leave empty for latest v2)'

required: false

type: string

permissions:

contents: write

actions: write

jobs:

cut-release:

runs-on: ubuntu-latest

steps:

- uses: actions/checkout@v6

with:

ref: ${{ inputs.commit_sha || 'v2' }}

- name: Check for existing release/v2-candidate branch

env:

GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}

run: |

if git ls-remote --exit-code --heads origin release/v2-candidate &>/dev/null; then

echo "Error: release/v2-candidate branch already exists"

echo "Please finalize or delete the existing release candidate before starting a new one"

exit 1

fi

- name: Create and push release/v2-candidate branch

run: |

git checkout -b release/v2-candidate

git push origin release/v2-candidate

echo "Created branch: release/v2-candidate"

- name: Trigger Release Please

env:

GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}

run: |

gh workflow run release-v2-please.yml --repo ${{ github.repository }} --ref release/v2-candidate

echo "Triggered Release Please workflow for v2"