action-gh-release/README.md

action gh-release

A GitHub Action for creating GitHub Releases

Usage

name: Main

on: push

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@master
      - name: Build
        run: echo ${{ github.sha }} > Release.txt
      - name: Release
        uses: docker://softprops/action-gh-release
        if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/')
        with:
          files: Release.txt
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

inputs

Name	Type	Description
body	String	Text communicating notable changes in this release
draft	Boolean	Indicator of whether or not this release is a draft
files	String	Comma-delimited globs of paths to assets to upload for release
name	String	Name of the release. defaults to tag name

environment variables

Name	Description
GITHUB_TOKEN	GITHUB_TOKEN as provided by secrets

Doug Tangren (softprops) 2019