Workflow compare with google/release-please-action?

[linrongbin16]

hi, would you please compare git-cliff with release-please-action. now I am using it with github actions, to automatically release project.

(in case we are not on the same page, let me introduce it a little)

it will run on every push for main branch, collect the conventional commits e.g. feat/fix/perf etc, and submit a release PR. The PR contains a changelog changes, which is highly similar to what git-cliff does (but seems not as extendable as git-cliff, I actually prefer the commit author and PR number examples in git-cliff).

I can either merge it or leave it there. if I leave it there, in following push on main branch, release-please-action will use force push to update the PR (with newer commits).

if I merge the release PR to main branch, it will trigger the release-please-action to do another thing: it will create a git tag (e.g. next version, for example v1.3.2), and publish the release.

since I am trying to create a rust/cargo project, and I can see that cargo community has its own popular release tools: git-cliff for generate the changelog, and cargo-release for publish the release and upload the cargo to crates.io.

but how should I integrate these two tools with github actions? especially for the 2-steps: submit release PR and publish after merge release PR? cargo-release docs actually didn't say too much about it, I am confused if I could do the same workflow with git-cliff+cargo-release.

[orhun]

Hey!

Check out release-plz by @marcoieni, it does exactly what you described. It also supports git-cliff (although we still need to work on the GitHub integration 🙂 )

[powerman]

Is there anything like release-plz by @marcoieni but not tied to Rust projects? I.e. just create/update "release please" PR and handle merging that PR by just creating tag and GitHub release with git-cliff's changelog - and nothing more! Other project/language-specific jobs/workflows will be triggered by created release and do everything else (build binaries, upload artifacts to GitHub release and/or language/OS-specific package managers etc.).

Only implementation I was able to find so far is a manual script like this one.

[marcoieni]

you don't like https://github.com/googleapis/release-please-action ?

[powerman]

Honestly - it just feels wrong to me. It does too much, it has too many open bug-issues, it feels too complicated. I suppose it will works just fine in most cases, but when it wont - I expect this to became a real issue.

[marcoieni]

I see. Good luck with your research then :)

[powerman]

Well, I implemented my own "Release PR" solution as a reusable workflow: https://github.com/powerman/workflows