/fake_release

Toying around with release-it before using in production.

This repo is a stand-in repo for using the release-it package: https://github.com/release-it/release-it 
I am creating a separate repo with dummy files to test the basic mechanics of release-it 
without potentially harming my professional codebases. 

## Goals for this work: ##
1. Understand how release-it works, especially with respect to how it creates Git tags
2. Successfully produce "releases" 
3. Configure any options I may need to change for my professional codebases

## Stretch goals ## 
1. Create a bash script to automate the update of version numbers and dates in DESCRIPTION files, 
files used in R packages to save metadata: https://r-pkgs.org/description.html
2. Create a script to automate deleting git branches that have last been updated a fixed amount in the past, 
EXCEPT for branches on an exception list.