This job bumps the version, updates the changelog, creates a git tag and creates a gitlab release. The git tag and release title use semantic versioning. for this job to function correctly a .cz.yaml is required in the root of the repository. this file contains the commitizen config and the version details. This job runs on successful completion of previous jobs and only on development and master branches.

This job provides the following badge:

None

Dependencies

This job will only run if all previous jobs run.

your .gitlab-ci.yml changes

To use this job add the following to your .gitlab-ci.yml file

stages:
    - release

include:
    - remote: https://gitlab.com/nofusscomputing/projects/gitlab-ci/-/raw/development/gitlab_release/.gitlab-ci.yml

Gitlab Release:
    variables:
        MY_COMMAND: "{your command here}"
    extends:
        - .gitlab_release

if you wish to run any commands you can add them to variable MY_COMMAND. The custom command will run under shell /bin/sh. This command is set to run before the version bump commit is conducted so any changes you wish to add as part of the version bump, you can do here as long as you git add {changed file name}.

CI/CD Variables required

var name	Description
GIT_COMMIT_TOKEN	this must be a personal token that has write access to the repository

Job Workflow

This CI job's workflow is:

updates the changelog from the commits
commit the changelog to git
adds a git tag to the changelog commit.
pushes the change back to the repo
creates a git release from the git tag

Artifacts

None

License

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