tools/releasing/create_release_branch.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

#
# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
# limitations under the License.
#

##
## Variables with defaults (if not overwritten by environment)
##
RELEASE_CANDIDATE=${RELEASE_CANDIDATE:-none}

##
## Required variables
##
RELEASE_VERSION=${RELEASE_VERSION}

if [ -z "${RELEASE_VERSION}" ]; then
	echo "RELEASE_VERSION was not set"
	exit 1
fi

# fail immediately
set -o errexit
set -o nounset

CURR_DIR=`pwd`
BASE_DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" >/dev/null && pwd )"
PROJECT_ROOT="${BASE_DIR}/../../"

# Sanity check to ensure that resolved paths are valid; a LICENSE file should aways exist in project root
if [ ! -f ${PROJECT_ROOT}/LICENSE ]; then
    echo "Project root path ${PROJECT_ROOT} is not valid; script may be in the wrong directory."
    exit 1
fi

###########################

TARGET_BRANCH=release-${RELEASE_VERSION}
if [ "${RELEASE_CANDIDATE}" != "none" ]; then
  TARGET_BRANCH=${TARGET_BRANCH}-rc${RELEASE_CANDIDATE}
fi

cd ${PROJECT_ROOT}
git checkout -b ${TARGET_BRANCH}

RELEASE_COMMIT_HASH=`git rev-parse HEAD`
echo "Done. Created a new release branch with commit hash ${RELEASE_COMMIT_HASH}."

cd ${CURR_DIR}