transmission version: check with SHA & allow git push to trigger buil…

…d workflow (#2849)

.github/workflows/check-transmission-releases.yml

@@ -12,16 +12,20 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout code
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
+          token: ${{ secrets.PAT }}
           ref: dev
 
       - name: Check for new version of Transmission
         run: |
-          LATEST_VERSION=$(curl -L https://api.github.com/repos/transmission/transmission/releases/latest | grep tag_name | awk '{print $2}' | sed -e 's/"//g' -e 's/,//')
-          CURRENT_VERSION=$(cat upstream/transmission-version.txt)
-          if [ "$LATEST_VERSION" != "$CURRENT_VERSION" ]; then
+          LATEST_SHA=$(curl -L https://api.github.com/repos/transmission/transmission/tags | tac | tac | awk '/sha/ {print $2; exit}' | sed -e 's/[",]//g')
+          LATEST_VERSION=$(curl -L https://api.github.com/repos/transmission/transmission/releases/latest | awk '/tag_name/ {print $2}' | sed -e 's/[",]//g')
+          CURRENT_SHA=$(cat upstream/transmission-sha.txt)
+          if [ "$LATEST_SHA" != "$CURRENT_SHA" -a -n "$LATEST_SHA" -a -n "$LATEST_VERSION" ]; then
+            echo "$LATEST_SHA" > upstream/transmission-sha.txt
             echo "$LATEST_VERSION" > upstream/transmission-version.txt
             git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
             git config --global user.name "workflow runner"
+            git add upstream/transmission-sha.txt
             git add upstream/transmission-version.txt
             git config user.email "[email protected]"
             git config user.name "Transmission-Bot"