remixz/publish-release

Option to create a tag instead of a release

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#9 opened on Oct 1, 2015

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Description

Seems GitHub releases are in fact tags with steroids, so it would be cool to have a boolean flag to create easily a tag or a release.

My use case is to create releases only on NodeOS master branch, but also allow to make releases for the commits in other branchs that pass the tests, but instead of doing full releases, I want to do "tag releases" so they are hidden from the list of "official" releases (the ones from the master branch).

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Implement a boolean flag (e.g., tag only) in the CLI that creates a Git tag without creating a GitHub Release. Modify the existing release creation logic to check this flag and skip the release step if set.
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javascript
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clidevops
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