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How to use release-please-action to perform hotfix #930

Open jfoo1984 opened 6 months ago

jfoo1984 commented 6 months ago

TL;DR

I'm wondering if it is possible to use this action to make hotfixes. Essentially, this would involve cherry picking a fix PR commit merged to the main branch onto specific release tags (the release tags that are deployed to our staging and production environments).

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raja-anbazhagan commented 3 months ago

Is this even possible?

axel-havukangas-tt commented 3 weeks ago

According to the documentation, you can use different target branches for different releases. So in your github action you could have something like

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
      - 'hotfix/**'
name: release-please
jobs:
  release-please:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: googleapis/release-please-action@v4
        with:
          release-type: node
          # The short ref name of the branch or tag that triggered
          #  the workflow run. For example, `main` or `hotfix/urgent-bugfix`
          target-branch: ${{ github.ref_name }}

this should then create separate release PRs for each branch that triggers the action.