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Fix draft release detection query (#1175)

ae0a804ccbc707d6b9005a0d6957fb635853ac64 · 2026-01-16 17:05:24 +0000 · Alex Cheema

## Motivation

Fixes the draft release detection that failed on the v1.0.63 release
attempt.

## Changes

The jq query was piped to `head -1` which truncated multi-line JSON
output to just `{`, causing the empty check to fail.

Changed to use `first // empty` in jq instead.

## Test Plan

Tested locally:
```bash
GITHUB_REF_NAME="v1.0.63"
gh api repos/exo-explore/exo/releases --jq "[.[] | select(.draft == true) | select(.name == \"$GITHUB_REF_NAME\")] | first // empty"
# Returns the full draft release JSON (2711 chars)
```

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Files touched

• M .github/workflows/build-app.yml

Diff

commit ae0a804ccbc707d6b9005a0d6957fb635853ac64
Author: Alex Cheema <41707476+AlexCheema@users.noreply.github.com>
Date:   Fri Jan 16 17:05:24 2026 +0000

    Fix draft release detection query (#1175)
    
    ## Motivation
    
    Fixes the draft release detection that failed on the v1.0.63 release
    attempt.
    
    ## Changes
    
    The jq query was piped to `head -1` which truncated multi-line JSON
    output to just `{`, causing the empty check to fail.
    
    Changed to use `first // empty` in jq instead.
    
    ## Test Plan
    
    Tested locally:
    ```bash
    GITHUB_REF_NAME="v1.0.63"
    gh api repos/exo-explore/exo/releases --jq "[.[] | select(.draft == true) | select(.name == \"$GITHUB_REF_NAME\")] | first // empty"
    # Returns the full draft release JSON (2711 chars)
    ```
    
    Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 .github/workflows/build-app.yml | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-app.yml b/.github/workflows/build-app.yml
index 9a0a6b9e..dad829da 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-app.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-app.yml
@@ -103,8 +103,8 @@ jobs:
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
         run: |
-          # Find draft release - either by matching tag name or by finding untagged draft with matching name
-          RELEASE_JSON=$(gh api repos/${{ github.repository }}/releases --jq ".[] | select(.draft == true) | select(.tag_name == \"$GITHUB_REF_NAME\" or .tag_name == \"\" or .name == \"$GITHUB_REF_NAME\")" 2>/dev/null | head -1 || echo "")
+          # Find draft release - match by name (title) since draft releases don't have tag_name set yet
+          RELEASE_JSON=$(gh api repos/${{ github.repository }}/releases --jq "[.[] | select(.draft == true) | select(.name == \"$GITHUB_REF_NAME\")] | first // empty" 2>/dev/null || echo "")
 
           if [[ -z "$RELEASE_JSON" ]]; then
             if [[ "$IS_ALPHA" == "true" ]]; then

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