quick-release v0.4.1

Quick Release is a GitHub action that allows simple releases from a straightforward branching model leveraging a standard commit message convention and semantic versioning.

The intent is to encourage the practice of Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment with GitHub by making it quick and easy to do so.

Commit Message Convention

Quick Release uses conventional-commits, and libraries from conventional-changelog to both generate changelogs and to determine the next semantic version.

Multiple presets are compiled-in and selectable from this actions configuration.

Branching Model

Quick Release assumes you are leveraging Continuous Integration towards the main branch. We believe developers should merge small pull requests there frequently.

Quick Release does not assume you want to release every single change immediately. Instead, it creates a branch called release and a pull request pointing back to main with any updated files related to the deployment (i.e., files with version number bumped) within it.

Usage

Start by adding the Quick Release GitHub Action to your repository actions.

Example

- name: Checkout
  uses: actions/checkout@v2
  with:
    fetch-depth: 0
    # The Checkout actions at v2 and beyond prevent pushes as another user because `persist-credentials` is now set to true by default.
    persist-credentials: false

- name: quick-release
  uses: TheRealWaldo/quick-release@v0.4.1
  with:
    token: ${{ secrets.PAT }}
    git-user-email: your@email.address

secrets.PAT should be replaced by an appropriate Personal Access Token for the GitHub User you wish to commit on your behalf. As a best practice, use Encrypted Secrets to store and access this PAT in your actions.

your@email.address should be replaced with your email address that you would like to use for any commits that Quick Release will do. See Setting your commit email address.

Inputs

Input	Required?	Default	Description
token	Yes	${{ github.token }}	GitHub Token to be used for creating pull requests, releases, etc.
git-user-email	Yes		Set the git email address to use when quick-release commits.
git-user-name	Yes	quick-release bump	Set the git users full name to use when quick-release commits.
github-username	Yes	${{ github.actor }}	Set the Github username to use for creating/pushing updates.
tag-prefix	No	v	Tag Prefix for versions.
base	Yes	main	The base branch a release pull request should target.
preset	No		Preset to use for conventional-recommended-bump. If not specified will attempt to auto-detect.
replace-files	No		Comma separated list of paths to files in which to replace the current version with the bumped version.
assignees	No		Comma separated list of Github users to assign to pull-request.

Presets

The following presets are currently supported:

Preset	Auto Detects?	Link
angular	Yes	https://github.com/conventional-changelog/conventional-changelog/tree/master/packages/conventional-changelog-angular
atom	Yes	https://github.com/conventional-changelog/conventional-changelog/tree/master/packages/conventional-changelog-atom
codemirror	No	https://github.com/conventional-changelog/conventional-changelog/tree/master/packages/conventional-changelog-codemirror
conventionalcommits	No	https://github.com/conventional-changelog/conventional-changelog/tree/master/packages/conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits
ember	Yes	https://github.com/conventional-changelog/conventional-changelog/tree/master/packages/conventional-changelog-ember
eslint	Yes	https://github.com/conventional-changelog/conventional-changelog/tree/master/packages/conventional-changelog-eslint
express	No	https://github.com/conventional-changelog/conventional-changelog/tree/master/packages/conventional-changelog-express
jquery	Yes	https://github.com/conventional-changelog/conventional-changelog/tree/master/packages/conventional-changelog-jquery
jshint	Yes	https://github.com/conventional-changelog/conventional-changelog/tree/master/packages/conventional-changelog-jshint

Outputs

Output	Description
recommendedVersion	Proposed version based on commits.
latestVersion	Previous or current version from tags.
changelog	Changelog as generated from commits.
pull-request	Pull request number if one was created or updated.
status	What quick-release wound up doing. One of pull-request, release, or nothing.