Action Major Tagger

A Github action to automatically update action repos with a new major only tag for the latest generated tag.

Inputs

• tag: Newly minted tag to grab the major version release from.
• token: Token to use to push to the repo. Pass in using secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN. Default to github.token.
• sha: SHA for the tag used to generate a major version release.
• prefix: The prefix prepended to the version number. Default is v.
• dry_run: Set when testing workflow. Will result in tags not being deleted or minted. NOTE: None of the inputs are expressly required (except for prefix, if one exists) and will automatically be pulled from the repository.

Outputs

• major_tag: The major tag generated by the workflow.
• origin_tag: The origin tag discovered and used by the workflow to make the major tag.

Secrets

This action does not use any secrets.

Usage

Learn more about GitHub Actions in general here.

To use this action in your repo, follow these steps:

1. Create a YAML file in the .github/workflows/ directory of your repo.
2. Copy the following into the YAML file:

---
name: Action Major Tag
on:
  push:
    tags:
      - '*'
jobs:
  new-major-tag:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Run Action Major Tagger
        uses: discoverygarden/action-major-tag@v1
        with:
          prefix: v

When a tag is generated, typically as part of our current auto-semvar workflow, this will generate a new major version release tag for the repository. If there is one existing previously, it will be deleted before the new one can be made. NOTE: This major version release tag at this time is really only used on our github actions, allowing them to be referenced only by their major version.