bb47f2226f
Historically, running `create_github_release --publish-release` would
always publish a new release from latest `main`, which isn't always the
best idea. We should really publish an alpha, let it bake, and then
promote it.
This PR introduces a new flag, `--promote-alpha`, which does exactly
that. It also works with `--dry-run`, so you can sanity check the commit
it will use as the base commit for the new release before running it for
real.
```shell
$ ./codex-rs/scripts/create_github_release --dry-run --promote-alpha 0.56.0-alpha.2
Publishing version 0.56.0
Running gh api GET /repos/openai/codex/git/refs/tags/rust-v0.56.0-alpha.2
Running gh api GET /repos/openai/codex/git/tags/7d4ef77bc35b011aa0c76c5cbe6cd7d3e53f1dfe
Running gh api GET /repos/openai/codex/compare/main...8b49211e67d3c863df5ecc13fc5f88516a20fa69
Would publish version 0.56.0 using base commit 62474a30e8 derived from rust-v0.56.0-alpha.2.
```
npm i -g @openai/codex
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