Closed hoppfrosch closed 10 years ago
This looks to be a new feature. I moved to sourceforge only because GitHub didn't support distributing binaries. I will try to learn more on it.
The mentioned mechanism is a very "cheap" mechanismn, probably not doing what you want.
Have a look at: https://github.com/hoppfrosch/AHK_cGist/releases
I gave my git-repository the tag "0.6.0" All what's available then is, that github offers a download possibility of a ZIP / TAR.GZ file, containing all files with tag 0.6.0 within the repository - nothing more. (this would include for example the documentation sources ...)
If you want to provide EXE-Download, you have to commit the exe to your repository and tag it ...
Now GitHub releases work through the web interface and this greatly eases the process. I have even added the 11.6 release.
Hi Avi,
what about tagging your released versions within git and pushing the tags to github? This allows to make use of the release-mechanism provided by github ...
See: https://help.github.com/articles/about-releases
Edit: Added more links https://github.com/blog/1547-release-your-software https://help.github.com/articles/creating-releases