This action extract the version from tag and provide different outputs to use in the job
.
To be able to use this action, you must retreive all the history of the repository by using the fetch-depth
option of the actions/checkout@v2
as bellow
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v2
with:
fetch-depth: 0 # Mandatory to use the extract version from tag action
- name: Extract version from tag
uses: damienaicheh/extract-version-from-tag-action@v1.0.0
You will then have access to these outputs:
-
The major digit:
$MAJOR
-
The minor digit:
$MINOR
-
The patch digit:
$PATCH
-
If it's a pre-release with like for exemple the
-beta1
the valuebeta1
will be extracted inside$PRE_RELEASE
. If no pre-release is found this output will be empty. -
The number of commits will be available inside:
$NUMBER_OF_COMMITS
. -
The number of commits since tag will be available inside:
$NUMBER_OF_COMMITS_SINCE_TAG
.