jamie-34254 / github-action-get-previous-tag

Get the previous tag

Get previous tag

Github Action that gets the latest tag from git

Output

This action has only one output, namely, tag for the latest tag this action finds. When no tag is found or another error occurs it exits with code 1.

Example

Find more examples in the examples directory.

The following example works together with the WyriHaximus/github-action-next-semvers and WyriHaximus/github-action-create-milestone actions. Where it provides the previous tag from that action so it can supply a set of versions for the next action, which creates a new milestone. (This snippet has been taken from the automatic code generation of wyrihaximus/fake-php-version.)

name: Generate
jobs:
  generate:
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2.2.0
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
      - name: 'Get Previous tag'
        id: previoustag
        uses: "WyriHaximus/github-action-get-previous-tag@master"
      - name: 'Get next minor version'
        id: semvers
        uses: "WyriHaximus/github-action-next-semvers@master"
        with:
          version: ${{ steps.previoustag.outputs.tag }}
      - name: 'Create new milestone'
        id: createmilestone
        uses: "WyriHaximus/github-action-create-milestone@master"
        with:
          title: ${{ steps.semvers.outputs.patch }}
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"

License

Copyright 2019 Cees-Jan Kiewiet

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