perf: setup actions provide default version tags when git fails

Author: alandefreitas

boost-clone/dist/index.js

@@ -1,5 +1,43 @@
 # Description: Build all the javascript projects in the repository
 
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Function to fetch tags from a Git repository and save them as a JSON array
+fetch_tags() {
+    local repo_url=$1
+    local output_file=$2
+
+    # Check if git is installed
+    if ! command -v git &> /dev/null; then
+        echo "fetch_tags(${repo_url}): Error: git is not installed."
+        return 1
+    fi
+
+    # Check if jq is installed
+    if ! command -v jq &> /dev/null; then
+        echo "fetch_tags(${repo_url}): Error: jq is not installed."
+        return 1
+    fi
+
+    # Create the output directory if it doesn't exist
+    mkdir -p "$(dirname "$output_file")"
+
+    # Fetch tags using git ls-remote and format them as a JSON array
+    git ls-remote --tags "$repo_url" | awk '{print $2}' | sed 's|refs/tags/||' | jq -R . | jq -s . > "$output_file"
+
+    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+        echo "Error: Failed to fetch or process tags from the repository: $repo_url"
+        exit 1
+    fi
+
+    echo "Tags have been saved to $output_file."
+}
+
+# Fetch default tags for tools whose versions we need to know
+fetch_tags "git://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git" "setup-program/gcc-tags.json"
+fetch_tags "https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project" "setup-program/clang-tags.json"
+fetch_tags "https://github.com/Kitware/CMake.git" "setup-program/cmake-tags.json"
+
 projects_with_package=()
 projects_with_action=()