GitHub Releases Resource

Fetches and creates versioned GitHub resources.

Source Configuration

• user: Required. The GitHub username or organization name for the repository that the releases are in.

• repository: Required. The repository name that contains the releases.

• access_token: Optional. The GitHub access token that should be used to access the API. Only required for publishing releases.

• github_api_url: Optional. If you use a non-public GitHub deployment then you can set your API URL here.

Behavior

check: Check for released versions.

Releases are listed and sorted by their tag, using semver semantics if possible.

in: Fetch assets from a release.

Fetches artifacts from the given release version. If the version is not specified, the latest version is chosen using semver semantics.

Also creates the following files:

• tag containing the git tag name of the release being fetched.
• version containing the version determined by the git tag of the release being fetched.

Parameters

• globs: Optional. A list of globs for files that will be downloaded from the release. If not specified, all assets will be fetched.

out: Publish a release.

Given a name specified in name, a body specified in body, and the tag to use specified in tag, this creates a release on GitHub then uploads the files matching the patterns in globs to the release.

Parameters

• name: Required. A path to a file containing the name of the release.

• tag: Required. A path to a file containing the name of the Git tag to use for the release.

• commitish: Optional. A path to a file containing the commitish (SHA, tag, branch name) that the release should be associated with.

• body: Optional. A path to a file containing the body text of the release.

• globs: Optional. A list of globs for files that will be uploaded alongside the created release.