Automatically create a release on GitHub?

[gridsystem]

Does commit-and-tag-version help with creating a release from a tag it's made, that would include the relevant items from the changelog?

If not is there a suggested way of doing that?

[TimothyJones]

Not at this time, no.

If you're using github, then release-please may work for you - although I personally ran into some bugs with it. However, for the simple use cases that commit-and-tag-version supports, it seems fine.

Alternatively, you could use a script that combines a --dry-run to get the changelog with creating a release on github. I did that for another project a few years ago. Here's the bash script to extract the changelog and do the tagging, and the corresponding github workflow that does the actual creation. This script has some downsides - where it's possible for changes to land while the release is being made, resulting in an inconsistent state of publishes. Yout could rework it to avoid that - by moving the actual artefact publishing to be after the git push.

[gridsystem]

That's a fantastic response, thank you!

I haven't gone with the release-please route for the project I'm working on as I have used standard-version for quite a few things and I like the workflow. I might have a play with it another time.

For now I will have a look at your scripts 👀

Thanks again :)