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-#!/bin/bash
-# actions requires a node_modules dir https://github.com/actions/toolkit/blob/master/docs/javascript-action.md#publish-a-releasesv1-action
-# but its recommended not to check these in https://github.com/actions/toolkit/blob/master/docs/action-versioning.md#recommendations
-# as such the following hack is how we dill with it
-
-if [[ $# -ne 1 ]]; then
-	echo "please pass a release version. i.e. $0 v1"
-	exit 1
-fi
-
-git checkout -b releases/$1 # If this branch already exists, omit the -b flag
-rm -rf node_modules
-sed -i '/node_modules/d' .gitignore # Bash command that removes node_modules from .gitignore
-npm install --production
-git add node_modules -f .gitignore
-git commit -m node_modules
-git push origin releases/$1
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