NAME

       git-release - Commit, tag and push changes to the repository

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

       Commits  changes  with  message  "Release  <tagname>"  or  custom commit information, tags with the given
       <tagname> and pushes the branch / tags.

       This command always creates a release commit, which could be empty if nothing changed. It works like  git
       merge --no-ff. If you don´t like the behavior, you could add --no-empty-commit to skip it.

       Optionally  it  generates a changelog (see git-changelog) and a remote can be defined. The order of first
       -c or -r does not matter.

       If .git/hook/pre-release or .git/hook/post-release exist, they will be triggered with tagname  and  extra
       hook arguments before/after the release.

OPTIONS

       --semver <name>

       If  the  latest  tag in your repo matches the semver format requirement, you could increase part of it as
       the new release tag with this option. The name must be one of  the  major,  minor,  patch.  For  example,
       assumed  the  latest  tag  is 4.4.0, with git release --semver minor you will make a new release with tag
       4.5.0.

       <tagname>

       The name of the newly created tag. Also used in tag comment.

       -r <remote>

       The "remote" repository that is destination of a push operation: it is passed to git push.

       -m <commit info>

       use the custom commit information instead of the default message "Release <tagname>" .

       --no-empty-commit

       Avoid creating empty commit if nothing could be committed.

       -c

       Generates or populates the changelog with all commit message since  the  last  tag.  For  more  info  see
       git-changelog..

       -s

       Create a signed and annotated tag.

       -u <key-id>

       Create a tag, annotated and signed with the given key.

       [--] hook arguments...

       The arguments listed after "--" separator will be passed to pre/post-release hook following the tagname.

EXAMPLES

       ○   Release commit with the given <tagname>.

           $ git release 0.1.0

       ○   Release commit with the given <tagname> and custom commit message.

           $ git release 0.1.0 -m "+ powerful feature added."

       ○   Release commit with the given <tagname> and push to specific remote.

           $ git release 0.1.0 -r github

       ○   Release commit with the given <tagname> and populate changelog.

           $ git release 0.1.0 -c

       ○   Release commit with the given <tagname>, populate changelog, and push to specific remote.

           $ git release 0.1.0 -r github -c

       ○   Release  commit with the given <tagname>, pass <tagname> and extra argument to release hook, populate
           changelog, and push to specific remote.

           $ git release 0.1.0 -r github -c -- --signature-required

AUTHOR

       Written by Tj Holowaychuk <tj@vision-media.ca> Extended by David Hartmann <dh@tsl.io>

REPORTING BUGS

       <https://github.com/tj/git-extras/issues>

SEE ALSO

       <https://github.com/tj/git-extras>

                                                  October 2020                                    GIT-RELEASE(1)