Add a workflow to initialize the releases

Git for Windows' Pacman repository is too opaque. Let's first mirror it
to GitHub releases at https://github.com/git-for-windows/pacman-repo.

The idea is to eventually switch completely to that transparent
process of uploading new packages to GitHub releases in that repository.
And after that, updating its x86_64, aarch64 and i686 branches
(representing Git for Windows' new Pacman repository) to reflect the
updated packages.

Since GitHub Actions' debugging facilities are totally insufficient,
let's first try this with the initial release and then stop. In the
unlikely event that it works, I will then proceed to handle the
remaining releases.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>

Author: dscho

Diff for: .github/workflows/initialize-releases.yml

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+name: Initialize releases
+
+on: [push]
+
+jobs:
+  initialize:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: mirror Git for Windows' Pacman repository to GitHub releases
+        uses: actions/github-script@v7
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        with:
+          script: |
+            const makeList = require('./make-list.js')
+            const list = makeList()
+
+            const ChildProcess = require('child_process')
+            const run = (cmd, args) => {
+              const { error, status, stderr, stdout } = ChildProcess.spawnSync(cmd, args, { stdio: 'inherit' })
+              if (error) {
+                throw error
+              }
+              if (status !== 0) {
+                throw new Error(`${cmd} ${args.join(' ')} exited with status ${status} (stderr: ${stderr})`)
+              }
+              return stdout
+            }
+
+            const baseURL = 'https://wingit.blob.core.windows.net/'
+            const targets = []
+            for (const release of list) {
+              console.log(JSON.stringify(release, null, 2))
+              for (name of release.names) {
+                const target = name.replace(/.*\//, '')
+                console.log(`downloading ${baseURL}${name} to ${target}`)
+                // call on curl to download the file
+                run('curl', ['-sfLo', target, `${baseURL}${name}`])
+                targets.push(target)
+              }
+
+              console.log(`creating release ${release.date}`)
+              // call GitHub CLI to upload the files to a new release
+              run('gh', [
+                'release',
+                'create',
+                '-R',
+                '${{ github.repository }}',
+                '--title',
+                (new Date(release.date)).toString(),
+                release.date,
+                ...targets])
+              break
+            }
+