compute-tag

A Github action to compute the next version tag.

This can be helpful to automatically compute tags and pipe them to the create-release action.

Inputs

Parameter	Description	Required	Default
github_token	A Github token, usually ${{ github.token }}.	Y	N/A
tag	The tag to compute the next version of. If not specified, the most recent tag in the repo.	N	Latest
branch	The branch to find compute the tag for. This requires iteration of all tags for the repo and the commits for the branch to find a tag for a commit on the branch. For large repositories this can be very slow. It is highly recommended that github_token be supplied to prevent rate limit errors when searching.	N	N/A
version_scheme	One of (continuous, semantic).	N	semantic
version_type	One of (major, minor, patch, premajor, preminor, prepatch, prerelease).	N	prerelease
prerelease_suffix	The suffix added to a prerelease tag, if none already exists.	N	beta
tag_fetch_depth	The number of tags to fetch when searching for the previous tag.	N	10

Output

• next_tag The computed next tag.
• previous_tag The tag used to compute next_tag.

Usage

steps:
  - id: compute_tag
    uses: craig-day/compute-tag@v15
    with:
      github_token: ${{ github.token }}

Examples

For an exhuastive list of every version_scheme+version_type combination, see the results from the Example Runs workflow

Tag each push to master as a semantic prerelease

name: Release

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master

jobs:
  release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - id: compute_tag
        uses: craig-day/compute-tag@v15
        with:
          github_token: ${{ github.token }}

Sample Logs:

Computing the next tag based on: v5.0.0-pre.4
Computed the next tag as: v5.0.0-pre.5

---

Tag each push to master as a semantic patch

name: Release

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master

jobs:
  release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - id: compute_tag
        uses: craig-day/compute-tag@v15
        with:
          github_token: ${{ github.token }}
          version_type: patch

Sample Logs:

Computing the next tag based on: v5.0.3
Computed the next tag as: v5.0.4

---

Tag each push to master as a continuous prerelease

name: Release

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master

jobs:
  release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - id: compute_tag
        uses: craig-day/compute-tag@v15
        with:
          github_token: ${{ github.token }}
          version_scheme: continuous
          version_type: prerelease

Sample Logs:

Computing the next tag based on: v5-pre.4
Computed the next tag as: v5-pre.5

---

Switching from continuous to semantic

name: Release

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master

jobs:
  release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - id: compute_tag
        uses: craig-day/compute-tag@v15
        with:
          github_token: ${{ github.token }}
          version_scheme: semantic

Sample Logs:

Computing the next tag based on: v5-pre.4
Computed the next tag as: v5.0.0-pre.5

---

Create a GitHub Release for each push to master

NOTE: Since actions/create-release is deprecated, this example uses softprops/action-gh-release which maintains a similar API and feature set.

name: Release

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master

jobs:
  release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - id: compute_tag
        uses: craig-day/compute-tag@v15
        with:
          github_token: ${{ github.token }}
          version_scheme: semantic

      - name: create release
        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v1
        with:
          name: ${{ steps.compute_tag.outputs.next_tag }}
          tag_name: ${{ steps.compute_tag.outputs.next_tag }}
          generate_release_notes: true
          prerelease: true
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}