refactor(github): simplified workflow

Signed-off-by: Fred Myerscough <oniice@gmail.com>

Author: oniice

.github/workflows/update-changelog.yml

@@ -2,19 +2,6 @@ name: update changelog
 
 on:
   workflow_call:
-    inputs:
-      branch:
-        description: 'Target branch'
-        default: ${{ github.event.release.target_commitish }}
-        type: string
-      version:
-        description: 'Released version'
-        default: ${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}
-        type: string
-      notes:
-        description: 'Release notes'
-        default: ${{ github.event.release.body }}
-        type: string
 
 jobs:
   update:
@@ -24,69 +11,18 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout code
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
-          # Fetch entire history of repository to ensure release date can be
-          # extracted from commit of the given tag.
           fetch-depth: 0
-          # Checkout target branch of this release. Ensures that the CHANGELOG
-          # is not out of date.
-          ref: ${{ inputs.branch }}
-
-      - name: Check if branch and release match
-        if: ${{ inputs.branch != 'main' && inputs.branch != 'master' }}
-        id: guard
-        run: |
-          NUMERIC_VERSION="${RELEASE_TAG_NAME#v}"
-          MAJOR_VERSION="${NUMERIC_VERSION%%.*}"
-          BRANCH_MAJOR_VERSION="${BRANCH%%.*}"
-
-          echo "MAJOR_VERSION=$(echo $MAJOR_VERSION)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT;
-          echo "BRANCH_MAJOR_VERSION=$(echo $BRANCH_MAJOR_VERSION)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT;
-
-          if [ "$MAJOR_VERSION" != "$BRANCH_MAJOR_VERSION" ]; then
-            echo "Mismatched versions! Aborting."
-            VERSION_MISMATCH='true';
-          else
-            echo "Versions match! Proceeding."
-            VERSION_MISMATCH='false';
-          fi
-          echo "VERSION_MISMATCH=$(echo $VERSION_MISMATCH)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT;
-        env:
-          BRANCH: ${{ inputs.branch }}
-          RELEASE_TAG_NAME: ${{ inputs.version }}
-
-      - name: Fail if branch and release tag do not match
-        if: ${{ steps.guard.outputs.VERSION_MISMATCH == 'true' }}
-        uses: actions/github-script@v7
-        with:
-          script: |
-              core.setFailed('Workflow failed. Release version does not match with selected target branch. Changelog not updated automatically.')
-
-      - name: Extract release date from git tag
-        id: release_date
-        run: |
-          # Get UNIX timestamp from git-tag
-          TIMESTAMP_OF_RELEASE_COMMIT=$(git log -1 --date=unix --format=%ad '${{ inputs.version }}');
-
-          # Convert timestamp to UTC date in Y-m-d format
-          FORMATED_DATE=$(date -u -d @$TIMESTAMP_OF_RELEASE_COMMIT +%Y-%m-%d)
-
-          # Make date available to other steps
-          echo "date=$(echo $FORMATED_DATE)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT;
+          ref: main
 
       - name: Update Changelog
         uses: stefanzweifel/changelog-updater-action@v1
         with:
-          # Pass extracted release date, release notes and version to the Action.
-          release-date: ${{ steps.release_date.outputs.date }}
-          release-notes: ${{ inputs.notes }}
-          latest-version: ${{ inputs.version }}
-          compare-url-target-revision: ${{ inputs.branch }}
-          parse-github-usernames: true
+          latest-version: ${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}
+          release-notes: ${{ github.event.release.body }}
 
       - name: Commit updated CHANGELOG
         uses: stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action@v7
         with:
-          # Push updated CHANGELOG to release target branch.
-          branch: ${{ inputs.branch }}
-          commit_message: Update CHANGELOG
+          branch: main
+          commit_message: 'chore: update CHANGELOG'
           file_pattern: CHANGELOG.md