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Latest & Previous Tag

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Latest & Previous Tag

Get latest and previous tag from a repository

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

              
- name: Latest & Previous Tag

              
  uses: JinoArch/get-latest-tag@latest
Learn more about this action in JinoArch/get-latest-tag

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get-latest-tag

Produces 2 outputs. Latest and previous output as follows

${{ steps.jinos.outputs.latestTag }}
${{ steps.jinos.outputs.previousTag }}

How to use?

- name: NewTag
  id: tag
  uses: JinoArch/get-latest-tag@latest

An example to get changelog

- name: changelog
  id: changelog
  run: |
    echo "changelog=$(git log "${{ steps.tag.outputs.previousTag }}...${{ steps.tag.outputs.latestTag }}" --pretty=format:"- <http://github.com/rewards-guilds/kensho/commit/%H|%h> - %s\n" | awk '{print}' ORS=' ')" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT