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tag

GitHub Action

Release Tag

v4.0.0

Release Tag

tag

Release Tag

Create a release on tag push

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

 
              
- name: Release Tag

              
  uses: Akryum/[email protected]
Learn more about this action in Akryum/release-tag

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release-tag

This is a fork of actions/create-release with the following changes:

  • Automatically determine whether a tag is a pre-release by checking for presence of - followed by a letter in the tag name.
  • Use changelogen to generate the changelog as release body.

Usage:

name: Create release

# When a tag is pushed, create a release
on:
  push:
    tags:
      - "v*" # Push events to matching v*, i.e. v1.0, v20.15.10

jobs:
  build:
    name: Create Release
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@master
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0 # Fetch all tags

      - name: Create Release for Tag
        id: release_tag
        uses: Akryum/release-tag
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        with:
          tag_name: ${{ github.ref }}