git-release

Minimal tool to create and publish Git release tags following the vX.Y.Z format.

# Quick install
mkdir -p ${HOME}/.local/bin
wget -qO ${HOME}/.local/bin/git-release https://github.com/ObNitram/git-release/releases/latest/download/git-release
chmod +x ${HOME}/.local/bin/git-release

Usage

• From the repository root: git release
• Select release type: patch, minor, major, or cancel
• Confirm the new version
• The script creates and pushes the new tag

Multi-project support

For repositories with multiple projects (monorepos), you can specify the project name as an argument: git release <projectname> will create a tag with the following format <projectname>-vX.Y.Z

Example

$ git release 
    📦 Current version: v0.0.0
    Select release type:
    1) patch
    2) minor
    3) major
    4) cancel
    #? 2
    🚀 Creating new release: v0.1.0
    Confirm? (y/N): y
    Enumerating objects: 6, done.
    Counting objects: 100% (6/6), done.
    Delta compression using up to 20 threads
    Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
    Writing objects: 100% (4/4), 560 bytes | 560.00 KiB/s, done.
    Total 4 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
    remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (1/1), completed with 1 local object.
    To github.com:ObNitram/git-release.git
    * [new tag]         v0.1.0 -> v0.1.0
    ✅ Release v0.1.0 created and pushed successfully!

Installation

It's a single script file:

• Download the git-release script from the repository.
• Make it executable: chmod +x git-release
• Place it in your PATH

It relies on the fact that if git does not find a command, it will look for a script named git-<command> in your PATH. So you can now run git release from any git repository.

You can use the following commands to install it:

mkdir -p ${HOME}/.local/bin
wget -qO ${HOME}/.local/bin/git-release https://github.com/ObNitram/git-release/releases/latest/download/git-release
chmod +x ${HOME}/.local/bin/git-release

Dependencies

• git

License

• MIT License
• See the repository LICENSE file.