[feature request] allow granular control over prerelease flag in github

[ahmadnassri]

currently the prerelease flag on github releases is driven by parsing the version number, however, this does not accurately mirror the functionality by github itself.

the flag on github is simply a flag, and has no relation to the version number:

the use-case here would be to allow incrementing semver numbers normally, without relying on suffix values or requiring a follow up increment to move from "prerelease" to "produciton" which in github is an action of unchecking the box

[webpro]

Yes, there is the --github.preRelease setting for this.

(Setting e.g. --preRelease=next sets this automatically indeed.)

[ahmadnassri]

in my testing doing --github.preRelease does nothing by itself (and looking at the code, it seems to also confirm that, unless i'm misreading it)

using --preRelease does indeed work, but then it overwrites the version number to do a "prerelease" as per semver standard ...

so what i'm looking for is being able to check the box in github, without modifying the version numbering scheme

[webpro]

Right, in that case it's a bug, unfortunately. --github.preRelease should just work.

[webpro]

The fix for this landed in v13.6.9