Usage of commit-and-tag-version within a CI/CD pipeline

[olaurendeau]

Hi,
I'm planning to use commit-and-tag-version within my CI/CD pipeline to automate it when a release is triggered.
Do you have recommendations for setting it up ? I've scan the docs but didn't found any reference to CI/CD.
Specially regarding how to make a good usage of Github & Gitlab "release" feature.
Thanks !

[TimothyJones]

Good point! We really should add something on this in the documentation.

It depends a bit on your workflow, but you can see an example of an automated workflow here. That script is triggered by a repository dispatch - and has a slight disadvantage in that there's a race between the commit and push it does and anyone else merging - which might not work for everyone.

I usually make the release after pushing the tag - but it can make more sense to do it the other way around - where the changelog is merged, and then the tag is generated.

[olaurendeau]

Thanks for your answer.
I eventually included tag-and-commit in my release workflow on a manual step.
Here it is : https://gitlab.com/incubateur-territoires/incubateur/survey-builder/-/blob/main/.gitlab-ci.yml?ref_type=heads#L93