Move experimental releases to a manually triggered workflow

.github/workflows/nightly.yml

@@ -49,10 +49,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: 🕵️ Check for changes
         id: version
         run: |
-          # get latest commit sha
-          SHA=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
-          # get first 7 characters of sha
-          SHORT_SHA=${SHA::7}
+          SHORT_SHA=$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)
 
           # get latest nightly tag
           LATEST_NIGHTLY_TAG=$(git tag -l v0.0.0-nightly-\* --sort=-creatordate | head -n 1)

.github/workflows/release-experimental-dispatch.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+name: 🧪 Experimental Release
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      branch:
+        required: true
+
+concurrency: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+
+env:
+  CI: true
+
+jobs:
+  experimental:
+    name: 🧪 Experimental Release
+    if: github.repository == 'remix-run/remix'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: ⬇️ Checkout repo
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ github.event.inputs.branch }}
+          # checkout using a custom token so that we can push later on
+          token: ${{ secrets.NIGHTLY_PAT }}
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: 📦 Setup pnpm
+        uses: pnpm/action-setup@v3.0.0
+
+      - name: ⎔ Setup node
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        with:
+          node-version-file: ".nvmrc"
+          cache: "pnpm"
+
+      - name: 📥 Install deps
+        run: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
+
+      - name: ⤴️ Update version
+        run: |
+          git config --local user.email "hello@remix.run"
+          git config --local user.name "Remix Run Bot"
+          SHORT_SHA=$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)
+          NEXT_VERSION=0.0.0-experimental-${SHORT_SHA}
+          git checkout -b experimental/${NEXT_VERSION}
+          pnpm run version ${NEXT_VERSION} --skip-prompt
+          git push origin --tags
+
+      - name: 🏗 Build
+        run: pnpm build
+
+      - name: 🔐 Setup npm auth
+        run: |
+          echo "registry=https://registry.npmjs.org" >> ~/.npmrc
+          echo "//registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken=${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}" >> ~/.npmrc
+
+      - name: 🚀 Publish
+        run: npm run publish