Feat: support shallow repos

timbertson / autorelease-tagger-action

Generate & tag versions based on git history

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Open timbertson-zd opened 3 years ago

timbertson-zd commented 3 years ago

compute-tag uses the github API to search for tags, rather than requiring all tags to be present locally:

We should either:

Adopt it wholesale instead of git describe, since it should be faster and removes the need for a deep clone
Alternatively there could be a switch to control it, if there are features lacking compared to git describe

timbertson-zd commented 3 years ago

In particular I want to make sure this keeps working:

(but maybe the correct behavior isn't even clear, and we should instead pick the highest numbered reachable tag from either parent 🤔 )