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deploying to Github releases with custom description

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jfayre

15 Oct, 2021 02:32 PM

Hi all,
I'm relatively new to Appveyor.
I'm setting up our project to deploy to Github releases. I want to be able to include a custom description with each push, containing release notes.
My idea is to include a file in the repo that has the text of the description, then include that file as part of the request to the github releases api.
How can I go about doing this? Do I need a deploy script? If so, how would I do that?
I want to deploy on tagged commits.
Thanks!

1. 1 Posted by jfayre on 15 Oct, 2021 04:43 PM

   

   As an update to this, I got things partially working with a script that was posted on the forum a while back. My problem now is with the description file. The description file contains several lines, formatted using Markdown, which I believe is supposed to work. In my script, I'm doing the following to pull in the description:
   $description = Get-Content c:\projects\appveyor-test\changes.md -Raw
   However, I'm getting an error from the github api that says the description is null.
   If I pass one line of description in quotes, it works.

   I'm attaching my appveyor.yml file.
    
   Thanks!

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2. Support Staff 2 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 15 Oct, 2021 06:34 PM

   

   Try passing hard-coded multi-line value?

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