Gets the Semantic Version of a repository based on the type of manifest file located. This action currently supports the following:

Note

This action currently only supports repositories where the manifest file is located at the root of the repository.

Once a version has been located, this action automatically creates or updates the following tags to point to the specified ref, depending on if this is a prerelease version or not.

Here is a simple example of how to use this action in your workflow. Make sure to replace vX.X.X with the latest version of this action.

name: Continuous Delivery

on:
  pull_request:
    types:
      - closed
    branches:
      - main

# This is required to be able to update tags
permissions:
  contents: write

jobs:
  release:
    name: Release Version
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    # Only run this job if the PR was merged
    if: ${{ github.event.pull_request.merged == true }}

    steps:
      # Checkout the repository with fetch-tags set to true
      - name: Checkout
        id: checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-tags: true

      - name: Tag Commit
        id: tag-commit
        uses: issue-ops/[email protected]
        with:
          workspace: ${{ github.workspace }}
          ref: main

      - name: Print version
        run: echo ${{ steps.tag-commit.outputs.version }}

The action outputs the following (assuming the version in the manifest file is 1.2.3-alpha.4):

Assume a Node.js repository has the following tag and commit structure:

If the action is run with version set to 2.3.1-alpha.1 in package.json, the repository tags will be updated to:

If the action is run with version set to 2.1.3 in package.json, the repository tags will be updated to: