Create release zip file on Github without tag name in it

Question

I have this repo on Github - https://github.com/ronakg/awesome-flickr-gallery-plugin. It's a wordpress plugin for creating a photo gallery from your photos stored on Flickr.

Now what I want to achieve is - when I create a new release zip for my plugin, it should not use the tag name.

For example, I create releases 3.5.0 and 3.6.0. The folder structure for both the releases should be same.

awesome-flickr-gallery-plugin
  /index.php
  /README.txt
  .
  .

Right now it creates the release zipfiles like this:

awesome-flickr-gallery-plugin-3.5.0
   /index.php
   /README.txt
   .
   .

This is important for me as I want to serve this zip files directly as WordPress plugin updates for my users. This different file structure breaks the plugin update process in WordPress.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I faced a similar problem with the prefix -master and solved with the following filter upgrader_source_selection. My repository is github-plugin-for-wordpress, adjust for your own.

/**
 * Access this plugin’s working instance
 *
 * @wp-hook plugins_loaded
 * @return  object of this class
 */
public function plugin_setup()
{
    add_filter( 'upgrader_source_selection', array( $this, 'rename_github_zip' ), 1, 3);
}

/**
 * Removes the prefix "-master" when updating from GitHub zip files
 * 
 * See: https://github.com/YahnisElsts/plugin-update-checker/issues/1
 * 
 * @param string $source
 * @param string $remote_source
 * @param object $thiz
 * @return string
 */
public function rename_github_zip( $source, $remote_source, $thiz )
{
    if(  strpos( $source, 'github-plugin-for-wordpress') === false )
        return $source;

    $path_parts = pathinfo( $source );
    $newsource = trailingslashit( $path_parts['dirname'] ) . trailingslashit( 'github-plugin-for-wordpress' );
    rename( $source, $newsource );
    return $newsource;
}