Initial release

[pvdlg]

Plugin to:

• Verify the git credential and plugin config
• Optionally generate a CHANGELOG.md
• Commit package.json and npm-shrinkwrap.json by default, and a configurable list of files
• Allow to customize the commit message with variables
• Create the git tag
• Allow to use httpsor ssh (via a lengthy doc for the latter)
• Allow to sign the release commit and tag with GPG

I think we could use it by default in semantic-release (after npm and before github) ?

I would also have to:

• Add a npmPublish boolean option to the npm plugin that would allow to skip the publish to the registry but still create the npm package and update package.json (so that can be committed to the repo) => Add npmPublish and tarballDir options npm#12
• Add a check in the github plugin in case the tag has already been created => Skip tag creation if it already exists github#11

[gr2m]

I didn’t thoroughly review the whole pull request, but there is no reason not to release it either, as it’s entirely new. You put some serious work into this, I think lots of folks will love that there is now a way that allows them to have a version in their package.json file that gets updated by semantic-release, and a way to have a changelog file :)

I wouldn’t like to make this a default in semantic-release in general, but it’s great to have an official plugin for folks who prefer that 👍

[gr2m]

#environment-variable should be #environment-variables