Automatically link GitHub release

[sliekens]

Hi,

I wanted my NuGet packages to have a link to the corresponding tag/release page on GitHub. I couldn't find any examples, so I came up with my own solution to automate it.

I used an MSBuild target which runs after MinVer to set the PackageReleaseNotes property.

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">

  <Target Name="LinkPackageReleaseNotes" AfterTargets="MinVer">
    <PropertyGroup>
      <PackageReleaseNotes>https://github.com/sliekens/gw2sdk/releases/tag/$(MinVerTagPrefix)$(Version)</PackageReleaseNotes>
    </PropertyGroup>
  </Target>

</Project>

One minor issue is that the Target runs on every commit, not just tagged commits. I don't know how to solve that without forking out to Git CLI.

[adamralph]

One minor issue is that the Target runs on every commit, not just tagged commits.

Why is that an issue? If you are releasing the package, then you will have tagged the commit. If you are not releasing the package then, the broken link will never be seen.

[sliekens]

In my setup, every commit is packaged and pushed to my internal package feed, so internally the broken link is visible. But it's really a very minor problem.

[sliekens]

The solution which is so obvious that I missed it, is to slap a Condition on the Target that needs to be set from the command line

dotnet pack /p:LinkReleaseNotes=true