Automatic releases

[carlfriedrich]

This PR adds a GitHub action for automatically creating a GitHub release for each tag (refs #233).

The action is executed on every tag and creates a GitHub release. The release contains a .tar.gz asset and a changelog consisting of all commit messages since the previous tag. Commits with a commit message starting with "Meta" are excluded from the changelog.

I tested this action on my forgit fork and you can see a generated changelog here:

https://github.com/carlfriedrich/forgit/releases

Check list

• [x] I have performed a self-review of my code
• [x] I have commented my code in hard-to-understand areas
• [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation

Description

Type of change

• [ ] Bug fix
• [x] New feature
• [ ] Refactor
• [ ] Breaking change
• [ ] Documentation change

Test environment

• Shell
  • [ ] bash
  • [ ] zsh
  • [ ] fish
• OS
  • [ ] Linux
  • [ ] Mac OS X
  • [ ] Windows
  • [ ] Others:

[carlfriedrich]

@wfxr Let me know what you think.

[carlfriedrich]

@wfxr Thanks for the approval! I noticed that the workflow does not work the way I thought, yet. But I already found the solution and will push a fix for it right away.