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Add action to download the source code `tar.gz` of a GitHub release
Since moving to XCFramework as the integration method for Gutenberg for Mobile Apps, we have been downloading the source code via Git in order to generate strings, see https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS/pull/21416.
Needless to say, checking out the whole repo take a long time, even with --depth 1
, which is one of the reasons we moved to XCFramework in the first place.
As we work to hand over release management to the devs, see https://github.com/Automattic/apps-infra-plans/issues/5, it would be good to take the time to remove this bottleneck.
One idea I have is to download the source code from the GitHub release (assuming a release is used, which is in most of the integration cases). After all, what we don't need Git history, only a snapshot of the code.
For reference, the archive for version 1.109.2 is around 20 MB
I noticed that the GitHub archive doesn't include the Gutenberg submodule, but I think that's okay as neither does the local checkout we currently do. I assume all the strings we need for GMA are defined in the repo itself.
I asked for confirmation, internal ref p1702342331442849-slack-C0126N6JH7Z