Generate Next Release Tag

GitHub action to automate the process of creating the next release tag for your repository. This action will set a ENV variable named next_release_version which can then be used to create release. This action uses the prev release tag an increments over it. Template of release tag will be: yy.mm.v, where yy=year, mm=month, v=version. For example, third release in December 2020 will be: 20.12.3

Inputs

None

Outputs

Sets an environment variable named next_release_version which contains next release version number.

Example workflow

name: Create Release

on: push

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Checkout branch
        uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: Authorizing Github action
        with:
          token: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
        uses: oleksiyrudenko/gha-git-credentials@v1

      - name: Generate release tag
        uses: amitsingh-007/next-release-tag@vlatest
        with:
          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}