Azure DevOps Annotated Git Tag Creator Task

This task automates the creation of annotated Git tags in an Azure Repos Git repository during your Azure DevOps pipeline runs.

Features

Azure DevOps pipeline with permissions to read/write Git repositories

Ensure Allow scripts to access OAuth token is enabled in the pipeline settings to access System.AccessToken

Input Name	Required	Description
`tagName`	Yes	Name of the Git tag to create (e.g., v1.0)
`tagMessage`	No	Message for the annotated tag
`failOnExistingTag`	No	Boolean, if true task fails when tag exists
`authMethod`	Yes	Authentication method (currently uses `System.AccessToken`)

Input Validation — validates tag name format and required pipeline variables
Check Tag Existence — queries Azure DevOps Git refs API for existing tags matching tagName
Conditional Behavior — fails or warns based on failOnExistingTag input
Create Annotated Tag — posts to Azure DevOps annotatedtags API to create the tag pointing to the specified commit
Logs Output — detailed logs throughout the process to trace execution and API responses

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.