From c76ffb9997a298c43eef59242df55248d154465a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "alexei.dolgolyov" <dolgolyov.alexei@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 02:24:50 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] fix: handle existing release in create-release job

If the Gitea release already exists for a tag (e.g. from a retried
workflow), fall back to fetching the existing release ID instead of
failing with KeyError.
---
 .gitea/workflows/release.yml | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/release.yml b/.gitea/workflows/release.yml
index 7e8f256..d61dbf4 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/release.yml
@@ -51,7 +51,22 @@ jobs:
               \"prerelease\": $IS_PRE
             }")
 
-          RELEASE_ID=$(echo "$RELEASE" | python3 -c "import sys,json; print(json.load(sys.stdin)['id'])")
+          # Extract release ID; if creation failed (already exists), fetch existing
+          RELEASE_ID=$(echo "$RELEASE" | python3 -c "
+          import sys, json
+          data = json.load(sys.stdin)
+          if 'id' in data:
+              print(data['id'])
+          else:
+              print('FAILED', file=sys.stderr)
+              print(json.dumps(data, indent=2), file=sys.stderr)
+              sys.exit(1)
+          " 2>&1) || {
+            echo "Create failed, fetching existing release for tag $TAG..."
+            RELEASE=$(curl -s "$BASE_URL/releases/tags/$TAG" \
+              -H "Authorization: token $GITEA_TOKEN")
+            RELEASE_ID=$(echo "$RELEASE" | python3 -c "import sys,json; print(json.load(sys.stdin)['id'])")
+          }
           echo "release_id=$RELEASE_ID" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
           echo "version=$VERSION" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"