GitHub Version Action

This action sets an environment variable to a non-developer user-friendly description of the Maven version of the project, inferred from the closest tag that is a direct ancestor of the current commit whose name appears to represent a Maven version. This value can then be used in filenames for build artifacts, etc. The name of the environment variable which gets set defaults to git_version, but this can be changed using the input var-name.

For example, if the closest matching tag is v0.2.3-SNAPSHOT or 0.2.3-SNAPSHOT, the environment variable will be set to "0.2.3-Preview". If the closest tag is Version-1.0.3 or 1.0.3, the environment variable will be set to 1.0.3.

Optionally you can also pass an input tag-var-name, which will cause another environment variable with that name to be set to the raw git tag name that was matched as the most recent version tag.

Optionally you can also pass an input mvn-var-name, which will cause another environment variable with that name to be set to the maven version implied by the most recent version tag (which simply removes any leading "v" or "version" from the tag).

The environment variable(s) set by this action will be available to subsequent steps in the same job in your workflow.

Inputs

var-name

The name of the environment variable to set. Default git-version.

Outputs

There are no direct step outputs, only the environment variables themselves.

Example usage

uses: Deep-Symmetry/github-version-action@v1
with:
  var-name: 'project_version'
  tag-var-name: 'version_tag'