Possible to tag the last commit rather than generate a new commit?

[JeffersonBledsoe]

Using GitHub actions, I'd like to be able to create a preRelease version every merge into my project's main branch by tagging whatever the previous commit was with a certain version. In theory, I should be able to do something like this to achieve that : npx release-it --preRelease --ci --git.commitMessage="" --git.commitArgs="--amend -C HEAD", however release-it currently seems to always configure a message commit even if I specify an empty message. Is it possible to be able to tag the previous commit version with release-it currently?

Came across release-it recently and it's been great!