GitHub Actions Stickiness Major Tagging

[paddyroddy]

Related to #280 (but think a more simple request).

I would like to bump my repo in the standard minor fashion, however I'd also like to update the major version (/create if it doesn't exist). This is the pattern used by various GitHub Actions (like actions/checkout).

So when I go from v0.0.0 → v0.0.1, v0 would now link v0.0.1. Then later one v0.0.2 gets made, and v0 now points to v0.0.2. At some point v1.0.0 gets made, v1 gets created and now points to v1.0.0 etc. Thanks!

[sbe-arg]

Its definitely a feature request. In the meantime you can do it like this.

https://github.com/bridgecrewio/checkov-action/blob/master/.github/workflows/build.yml#L34

[paddyroddy]

Thanks! I got it working with this

      - name: Bump version and push tag
        id: bump-version
        uses: anothrNick/github-tag-action@a2c70ae13a881faf2b4953baaa9e49731997ab36 # 1.67.0
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          WITH_V: true

      - name: Extract major tag
        id: extract-major
        run: >-
          echo major_tag=$(echo ${{ steps.bump-version.outputs.new_tag }} |
          cut -d'.' -f1) >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT

      # this is done manually as need a non-annotated tag
      # TODO: replace with https://github.com/actions/publish-action
      - name: Update major tag
        run: |-
          git config user.name github-actions
          git config user.email github-actions@github.com
          git tag --force ${{ steps.extract-major.outputs.major_tag }} \
          ${{ steps.bump-version.outputs.new_tag }}
          git push origin ${{ steps.extract-major.outputs.major_tag }} --force