try creating a nightly push to nuget script v1

this is intended to create nightly build with package
versions of the form x.y.z-yyyyMMdd.sha and
push them to nuget automatically, only where there
are new changes per day. since devops is a nightmare
and entirely untestable we will have to go through 20
iterations to actually get this to work

.github/workflows/check_nightly.yml

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+# https://github.community/t/trigger-action-on-schedule-only-if-there-are-changes-to-the-branch/17887/2
+check_date:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    name: Check latest commit
+    outputs:
+      should_run: ${{ steps.should_run.outputs.should_run }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: print latest_commit
+        run: echo ${{ github.sha }}
+
+      - id: should_run
+        continue-on-error: true
+        name: check latest commit is less than a day ago
+        if: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' }}
+        run: test -z $(git rev-list  --after="24 hours"  ${{ github.sha }}) && echo "::set-output name=should_run::false"

.github/workflows/nightly_release.yml

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+name: Nightly Release
+
+on:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: '0 0 * * *'
+
+jobs: 
+  build_and_publish_nightly:
+    needs: check_date
+    if: ${{ needs.check_date.outputs.should_run != 'false' }}
+    runs-on: windows-latest
+    name: build_and_publish_nightly
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@master
+
+      - name: Set up dotnet core
+        uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v1
+        with:
+          dotnet-version: "2.1.x"
+
+      - name: Add msbuild to PATH
+        uses: microsoft/setup-msbuild@v1.0.2
+
+      - name: Write nightly version to projects
+        run: |
+          $newVer = .\tools\generate-nightly-version.ps1; .\tools\set-version.ps1 $newVer
+
+      - name: Restore packages
+        run: dotnet restore tools/UglyToad.PdfPig.Package/UglyToad.PdfPig.Package.sln
+    
+      - name: Build package
+        run: dotnet pack -c Release -o package tools/UglyToad.PdfPig.Package/UglyToad.PdfPig.Package.sln
+
+      - name: Publish Nuget to GitHub registry
+        run: dotnet nuget push ./package/*.nupkg --api-key ${NUGET_API_KEY} --source https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

tools/generate-nightly-version.ps1

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+$toolsRoot = (Split-Path -parent $PSCommandPath)
+
+$mainVersion = & "$toolsRoot\get-main-version.ps1"
+$commitHash = (git rev-parse HEAD).Substring(0, 5)
+$date = [System.DateTime]::Now.ToString('yyyyMMdd')
+$nightlyVersion = "$mainVersion-$date.$commitHash"
+Write-Output $nightlyVersion

tools/get-main-version.ps1

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+$xml = New-Object XML
+$xml.Load(".\tools\UglyToad.PdfPig.Package\UglyToad.PdfPig.Package.csproj")
+$current = $xml.Project.PropertyGroup[0].Version
+$hyphenIndex = $current.IndexOf('-')
+$len = If ($hyphenIndex -lt 0) { $current.Length } Else { $hyphenIndex }
+$version = $current.Substring(0, $len)
+Write-Output $version

tools/set-version.ps1

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 param (
-  [Parameter(Position=0,mandatory=$true)]
+  [Parameter(Position = 0, mandatory = $true)]
   [string]$version
 )
 
@@ -12,4 +12,11 @@ $projs | ForEach-Object {
   $xml.Project.PropertyGroup[0].Version = $version
   $xml.Save($_.FullName)
 }
+
+$packageProjectPath = "$root/UglyToad.PdfPig.Package/UglyToad.PdfPig.Package.csproj"
+$xml = New-Object XML
+$xml.Load($packageProjectPath)
+$xml.Project.PropertyGroup[0].Version = $version
+$xml.Save($packageProjectPath)
+
 Write-Host $projs.Length