gha-versioning 🏷️

Lightweight composite github action managing vX and vX.Y tags for a github action.

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Designed to act upon created or edited github releases, action will create or override vX and vX.Y tags based on the provided tag.

Note

Action will also override the original tag (reference and the message stay as is though), in order to keep it as latest tag !

Otherwise, when creating a new github releases with an automatically generated changelog, vX or vX.Y tag will be picked as previous tag rather than the expected previous vX.Y.Z tag.

Usage

Important

• Do not forget to set contents: write permission !
• When action is used with another event than release creation (or edition), you must fill the tag input !

name: Publish

on:
  release:
    types: [published, edited]

jobs:
  tag:
    name: Publish vX and vX.Y tags
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    if: ${{ github.event.release.prerelease == false && github.event.release.draft == false }}
    permissions:
      contents: write # Required to manage tags & releases !
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Generate vX and vX.Y tags
        uses: yoanm/gha-versioning@v1

Tip

The repository uses the action too, therefore a vX and a vX.Y tag are automatically created for each release !

vX / vX.Y on GitHub Marketplace

If you want to make vX and/or vX.Y versions available on the marketplace, follow this procedure:

• Use update-inner-releases at true when using the action

  - name: Generate vX and vX.Y tags
    uses: yoanm/gha-versioning@v1
    with:
      update-inner-releases: true

• Wait for the related tag (vX or vX.Y) to be created by this action.

• Manually create the releases targeting the tag (vX or vX.Y or both, up to you) and publish it to the marketplace.

Then continue creating vX.Y.Z releases as usual, related existing vX and vX.Y releases will be automatically updated to reflect the actual vX.Y.Z version.

Inputs

• tag: Default to ${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}

  The full tag used to generate vX and vX.Y tags

• update-inner-releases: Default to false.

  Whether to also update releases name linked to vX and vX.Y tags and set them as latest if provided tag release is currently the latest release.

  [!IMPORTANT] Will work only on pre-existing releases !

• inner-releases-as-latest: Default to auto.

  Whether to set inner releases as latest.

  [!IMPORTANT] Requires update-inner-releases at true !

  • auto: Will be set only if releases linked to provided tag is the latest
  • true: Set them as latest whatever if provided tag release is the latest or not
  • false: Do not set them as latest

• git-email: Default to github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com.

  Git user email is required when creating tag with a message.

• git-name: Default to github-actions[bot].

  Git user name is required when creating tag with a message.

• working-directory: Default to ${{ github.workspace }}.

  Directory to the Git repository to tag.

Outputs

• minor-tag: Minor tag created (e.g. vX.Y)
• major-tag: Major tag created (e.g. vX)