ci: release on every push to master with date-based versioning (vYYYY.MM.DD)

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@ name: Release
 on:
   push:
     branches: [master]
-    paths:
-      - custom_components/nvidia_shield/manifest.json
   workflow_dispatch:
 
 env:
@@ -24,10 +22,21 @@ jobs:
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
 
-      - name: Read version from manifest.json
+      # Date-based versioning: vYYYY.MM.DD.
+      # Priority: an unreleased manifest version wins (bump manifest.json to
+      # force a specific version); otherwise fall back to today's date, so a
+      # plain push to master produces/updates the day's release. The
+      # tag-exists check below dedupes same-day pushes.
+      - name: Determine release version
         id: version
         run: |
-          VERSION=$(jq -r .version custom_components/nvidia_shield/manifest.json)
+          MANIFEST_VERSION=$(jq -r .version custom_components/nvidia_shield/manifest.json)
+          DATE_VERSION=$(date -u +%Y.%m.%d)
+          if git ls-remote --tags origin "refs/tags/v$MANIFEST_VERSION" | grep -q .; then
+            VERSION="$DATE_VERSION"
+          else
+            VERSION="$MANIFEST_VERSION"
+          fi
           echo "version=$VERSION" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
           echo "tag=v$VERSION" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"