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Interactive release task for Git repositories. Optionally release a build to distribution/component repository.
Interactive release tool for Git repositories. Options: run build command first, release to distribution repository (or branch), create GitHub release, publish to npm.
Automatically bump version, commit, tag, push, done.
This is the Grunt plugin of Release It!
This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.2
If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:
npm install grunt-release-it --save-dev
Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-release-it');
See Release It! for configuration options.
In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named release-it to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig(). These are some of the options with their default values:
grunt.initConfig({
'release-it': {
options: {
pkgFiles: ['package.json'],
commitMessage: 'Release %s',
tagName: '%s',
tagAnnotation: 'Release %s',
buildCommand: false
}
}
});
Release a new patch (increments from e.g. 1.0.4 to 1.0.5):
grunt release-it
Release a patch, minor, major, or specific version:
grunt release-it:minor
grunt release-it:0.8.3
grunt release-it:2.0.0-rc.3
Make sure to check out the main Release It documentation to learn about all the options and features.
The following Grunt options are passed on to Release It:
| Grunt option | Release-It! option |
|---|---|
--no-write | --dry-run |
-v/--verbose | same |
-f/--force | same |
-d/--debug | same |
FAQs
Interactive release task for Git repositories. Optionally release a build to distribution/component repository.
The npm package grunt-release-it receives a total of 87 weekly downloads. As such, grunt-release-it popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that grunt-release-it demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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