git release

Status

Archiving this repository since I've made a very similar one here.

Motivation

I like to write release notes in an annotated tag message. I want to be able to write them in Markdown format, so that they can easily be translated to GitHub release notes. However, there's a problem stopping me from being able to do this: # to ###### are headers in Markdown, but comments in git messages.

This git extension is a shortcut to

1. Change the comment character to ;
2. Start git tag -a <tag name>
3. Revert back to the previous comment character (or unset it if it wasn't set)
4. Push the tag to the remote repo (remote.origin.url)

This pairs well with my Tag to Release action.

Installation

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spenserblack/git-release/HEAD/install.sh | sh

Usage

git release <tag name> [commit-ish]