Prefill new "Releases" with query parameters

[sindresorhus]

GitHub supports prefilling issues using query parameters. It would be very useful if this worked when creating new "Releases" too. Then scripts could pre-generate the release notes for new releases based on the commits and just open it for the user to edit and then publish it.

For example: https://github.com/chalk/chalk/releases/new?tag=v1.0.0&title=Foo&body=Notes would prefill the tag, title, and body fields. Since it works with issues, I kinda expected this to work with Releases too and was surprised when it didn't.

The alternative is using the GitHub API to create the actual release, but this is more complicated and requires either creating a login flow or requiring the user to get an access token, both of which are too much overhead for simple tools.

My specific use-case is being able to open a prefilled "Releases" entry for the user after publishing an npm package version with https://github.com/sindresorhus/np

[sindresorhus]

@AraHaan Please open a separate issue. This is totally unrelated.

[AraHaan]

#1417

[mattyoho]

👋 @sindresorhus

We've just added support for pre-filling the fields of the new Release form via query parameters. The supported parameters are:

tag

The tag name for the Release.

target

The branch name or commit oid to point the Release's tag at, if the tag doesn't already exist.

title

The name of the Release.

body

The description text of the Release.

prerelease

Whether the Release should be tagged as a pre-release; valid values are "1" or "true".

Hopefully this does the trick!

[sindresorhus]

Thank you! That was super-fast. 🙌

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_{For Node.js usage, I made a simple module to make it easier to use: https://github.com/sindresorhus/new-github-release-url}