🚀 Save time with the Git-Tag-Release-Automator!

If you are a friend of git flow and use tagging in your release flow, I'm sure you struggle with manually determining the latest git tag and then creating a matching release branch is a tedious task. What if there was a way to automate this process to save time, effort and errors?

This script automates:

• 🥇 Release tagging
• 🥇 Matching release branch creation for major and minor releases
• 🥇 prevent you for create tags with no relevant changes

The shell script:

• 🎂 Provieds an init action,
• 🎊 Fetch the latest Git tag,
• 🚑 Prompts the user to increase the major, minor, or patch version,
• 📽️ Fetch the last tag depending on the user's choice,
• 👾 Check if there a exiting release branch like "release/v1.1.0" based on the new tag,
• 🥇 Validate changes in the release branch, before a new tag will pushed,

Install:

composer require derpixler/git-tag-release-automator

Execute:

./vendor/bin/git-tag-release-automator

Create a new tag command in action

❯ ./vendor/bin/git-tag-release-automator
Latest tag: v1.1.0
Which part of the version do you want to increase: Major (M), Minor (m) or Patch (p)? (M.m.p)
Your choice: p

Switched to existing release branch release/v1.1.0

Git tag v1.1.1 created and pushed successfully.

Some Insights

Initial setup for new projects.

❯ ./vendor/bin/git-tag-release-automator
There are no existing tags. Do you want to create a tag starting with 'v'? (y/n)
Your choice: y

No "release/v1.0.0" found, create one? (y/n)
Your choice: y

Release branch "release/v1.0.0" created.
Now you can merge into "release/v1.0.0" and create tags.

Create new tag but there is no matching release branch.

❯ ./vendor/bin/git-tag-release-automator
Latest tag: v1.4.1

Which part of the version do you want to increase: Major (M), minor (m) or patch (p)?
Your choice: m

No "release/v1.5.0" found, create one? (y/n)
Your choice: y

Release branch "release/v1.5.0" created.
Now you can merge into "release/v1.5.0" and create tags.

Create new minor version tag.

❯ ./vendor/bin/git-tag-release-automator
Latest tag: v1.4.1

Which part of the version do you want to increase: Major (M), minor (m) or patch (p)?
Your choice: m

Git tag v1.5.0 created and pushed successfully.

Create new patch version tag

❯ ./vendor/bin/git-tag-release-automator
Latest tag: v1.5.0

Which part of the version do you want to increase: Major (M), minor (m) or patch (p)?
Your choice: p

Git tag v1.5.1 created and pushed successfully.

🤙 Contact:

• Name: René Reimann
• Email: [email protected]
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rene-reimann-18b50a127
• GitHub: https://github.com/derpixler