avakar/tag-and-release

Automatically create tags and corresponding releases

GitHub Action – Tag and Release

Automatically create tags and corresponding releases.

Usage

This action is meant to be invoked in response to a branch push to create a tag and a corresponding release, under the assumption that you can derive the tag name automatically. In contrast, actions/create-release is generally run on a tag push, expects the tag to already exist and only creates the release.

The only mandatory input parameter is the tag name.

on: push
jobs:
  release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: avakar/tag-and-release@v1
        with:
          tag_name: ${{ ... }}
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Inputs

• tag_name: the name of the tag to be created
• release_name: the name of the new release; if omitted, defaults to tag_name
• commit: the commit to which the new tag should point, defaults to ${{ GITHUB_SHA }}
• body: optional text of the release body
• draft: set to true to create an unpublished (draft) release; defaults to false
• prerelease: whether the release should be marked as a prerelease.

Outputs

• id: the ID of the release
• html_url: the human-readable web-page of the release, e.g. https://github.com/avakar/tag-and-release/releases/v1.0.0
• upload_url: the URL you can give to @actions/upload-release-asset