Creation of draft release should be possible without tag name

[hubuk]

I would like to create a draft release without pushing a new tag to the repository. GitHub UI currently allows creation of draft releases without specifying tag name. Is it possible to make the same behavior available via REST API?

[hubuk]

I know for sure that GitHub CLI is complaining about it

gh release create -d --target develop
could not create: no tag name provided

In API documentation tag_name is also marked as Required: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/repos#create-a-release

@LordBigSky In fact I did not check it myself yet, but I will, thanks for response.

[hubuk]

@LordBigSky Unfortunately, REST API also does not allow creation of draft release without tag_name:

status: 422
Invalid request.
"tag_name" wasn't supplied.

However, when creating a draft release the git tag is not being created, so it is completely safe to provide tag name. I believe this was what you meant.