I would like to be able to ignore tag-only commits

[jchesterpivotal]

I can use ignore_paths to ignore changing files.

But it's less clear how to use tag_filter to ignore tag-only commits. I don't want to include particularly-tagged commits. I want to exclude some or all tagged commits.

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[vito]

Not sure what you mean by tag-only commits. No-op commits made with --allow-empty that have a tag pointing to them?

[jchesterpivotal]

We watch a lot of github projects with varying levels of tagging discipline. Some will only tag releases, which is nice. Some will tag releases, pre-releases, the name of their kids, the time of day, nonsensical versions worthy of Dr Seuss and so on and so forth.

For the latter kind, we want to be able to exclude tags that don't fit a release pattern. I wish I'd kept the motivating example at hand, or linked to it, because I don't remember at the moment :|

[d]

The checking behavior is to list new commits. Tags, if I understand them correctly, are not commits.

[jchesterpivotal]

Tags either point to commits (lightweight tags) or they are commit-like (annotated tags).

Either way, we'd like to be able to filter by pattern.

[d]

Did this work for you?

source:
  tag_filter: 'v*'

[jchesterpivotal]

I sincerely do not recall. I do remember reading the readme pretty forensically.

[jchesterpivotal]

OK, here is the example:

https://github.com/aspnet/Home/releases

I want to include any tag that does not include preview in it.

In theory I can match on \d\.\d\.\d but it would be much clearer to be able to exclude tags.

[vito]

Agreed on the principle that it's more obvious to teammates to explicitly say "skip preview releases".