From 2f539acb0409bb6219e99ec18dfd294a546dd145 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "David M. Anderson" <david@anderix.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:20:17 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] dist attaches to the release ship creates

ship's publish step runs `gh release create` for the tag before any build
starts. dist's host job ended with a `gh release create` of its own for the
same tag, which GitHub rejects as already_exists, so host went red, the
homebrew job that needs it was skipped, and none of the archives, installers
or checksums reached the release.

`create-release = false` regenerates that step as `gh release upload`
followed by `gh release edit --draft=false`, which attaches to the release
already there. Workflow regenerated with dist 0.31.0, the pinned version.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014BDPzwzMCSL2rhkrmGCAtP
---
 .github/workflows/release.yml | 12 +++++-------
 dist-workspace.toml           |  2 ++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 4564944..800175f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
 # * uploads those artifacts to temporary workflow zip
 # * on success, uploads the artifacts to a GitHub Release
 #
-# Note that the GitHub Release will be created with a generated
-# title/body based on your changelogs.
+# Note that a GitHub Release with this tag is assumed to exist as a draft
+# with the appropriate title/body, and will be undrafted for you.
 
 name: Release
 permissions:
@@ -269,14 +269,12 @@ jobs:
       - name: Create GitHub Release
         env:
           PRERELEASE_FLAG: "${{ fromJson(steps.host.outputs.manifest).announcement_is_prerelease && '--prerelease' || '' }}"
-          ANNOUNCEMENT_TITLE: "${{ fromJson(steps.host.outputs.manifest).announcement_title }}"
-          ANNOUNCEMENT_BODY: "${{ fromJson(steps.host.outputs.manifest).announcement_github_body }}"
           RELEASE_COMMIT: "${{ github.sha }}"
         run: |
-          # Write and read notes from a file to avoid quoting breaking things
-          echo "$ANNOUNCEMENT_BODY" > $RUNNER_TEMP/notes.txt
+          # If we're editing a release in place, we need to upload things ahead of time
+          gh release upload "${{ needs.plan.outputs.tag }}" artifacts/*
 
-          gh release create "${{ needs.plan.outputs.tag }}" --target "$RELEASE_COMMIT" $PRERELEASE_FLAG --title "$ANNOUNCEMENT_TITLE" --notes-file "$RUNNER_TEMP/notes.txt" artifacts/*
+          gh release edit "${{ needs.plan.outputs.tag }}" --target "$RELEASE_COMMIT" $PRERELEASE_FLAG --draft=false
 
   publish-homebrew-formula:
     needs:
diff --git a/dist-workspace.toml b/dist-workspace.toml
index f8acdd8..3092967 100644
--- a/dist-workspace.toml
+++ b/dist-workspace.toml
@@ -15,3 +15,5 @@ publish-jobs = ["homebrew"]
 targets = ["aarch64-apple-darwin", "aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu", "x86_64-apple-darwin", "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu", "x86_64-pc-windows-msvc"]
 # Where to host releases
 hosting = "github"
+# ship creates the release; dist attaches to it.
+create-release = false