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name: Create Tag

on:
workflow_dispatch:
inputs:
tag_name:
description: 'Tag name (e.g., v1.0.0)'
required: true
type: string
branch:
description: 'Branch to create tag from'
required: true
type: string
default: 'main'
tag_message:
description: 'Tag message/description'
required: false
type: string
default: ''

jobs:
create-tag:
name: Create Tag
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
permissions:
contents: write

steps:
- name: Checkout repository
uses: actions/checkout@v5
with:
ref: ${{ inputs.branch }}
fetch-depth: 0

- name: Validate tag name
run: |
TAG_NAME="${{ inputs.tag_name }}"
if [[ ! "$TAG_NAME" =~ ^v?[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(-[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+)?$ ]]; then
echo "⚠️ Warning: Tag name '$TAG_NAME' doesn't follow semantic versioning (vX.Y.Z)"
fi
if git rev-parse "$TAG_NAME" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
echo "❌ Error: Tag '$TAG_NAME' already exists"
exit 1
fi
echo "✅ Tag name '$TAG_NAME' is available"
- name: Configure Git
run: |
git config user.name "github-actions[bot]"
git config user.email "github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
- name: Create and push tag
run: |
TAG_NAME="${{ inputs.tag_name }}"
TAG_MESSAGE="${{ inputs.tag_message }}"
if [ -n "$TAG_MESSAGE" ]; then
git tag -a "$TAG_NAME" -m "$TAG_MESSAGE"
else
git tag -a "$TAG_NAME" -m "Release $TAG_NAME"
fi
git push origin "$TAG_NAME"
echo "✅ Successfully created and pushed tag '$TAG_NAME'"
- name: Output tag info
run: |
echo "## Tag Created Successfully" >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
echo "" >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
echo "- **Tag:** ${{ inputs.tag_name }}" >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
echo "- **Branch:** ${{ inputs.branch }}" >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
echo "- **Commit:** $(git rev-parse HEAD)" >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
TAG_MESSAGE="${{ inputs.tag_message }}"
echo "- **Message:** ${TAG_MESSAGE:-Release ${{ inputs.tag_name }}}" >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
- name: Create GitHub Release
uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2
with:
tag_name: ${{ inputs.tag_name }}
name: ${{ inputs.tag_name }}
body: ${{ inputs.tag_message || format('Release {0}', inputs.tag_name) }}
draft: false
prerelease: ${{ contains(inputs.tag_name, '-') }}