date-tag

The goal of this package is to create (and push) git tags that are date based. This is sometimes used to push applications that aren't "versioned" in the semver sense, but have date-based deployments.

Note: these tags are annotated tags. See the "Creating Tags" section of the Tagging docs.

Tag Format

The git tag that is created will come in the format of: <prefix><YYYY>-<MM>-<DD>.<version>

• Prefix
  • Denotes whether it was a full release or a release candidate
• YYYY
  • 4-digit calendar year
• MM
  • 2-digit calendar month
• DD
  • 2-digit calendar day
• Version
  • Denotes which deployment this is for today.
    • .1 would be the first deployment with that prefix
    • .10 would be the tenth.

Examples

Example	Command	Prefix	YYYY	MM	DD	Version
rc-v2022-01-06.15	date-tag rc	rc-v	2022	01	06	15
v2022-10-20.2	date-tag prod	v	2022	10	20	2

Usage

Without installation

The easiest way to use this package is simply to use npx to call it. You do not need to install it first.

$ npx date-tag <rc | prod | push>

With installation

First install it in your project with either:

npm install -D date-tag

yarn install -D date-tag

You can then use the same npx command

npx date-tag <rc | prod | push>

Or you can add it to your package.json

{
  "scripts": {
    "release": "yarn run date-tag"
  }
}

and then you can use

yarn release <rc | prod | push>

Options

There is only one option with multiple possible values:

Option	Purpose	Variations
rc	Publishes a tag with the prefix rc-v e.g. rc-v2022-01-01.1	date-tag rc date-tag beta date-tag demo
prod	Publishes a tag with the prefix v e.g. v2022-01-01.1	date-tag prod date-tag full date-tag release
push	Shows you the tags for today and allows you to choose one to push to Github. (See Note below).	date-tag push

Note on push

The reason the command push exists when git push --tags also exists is that I was personally frustrated when I had OTHER tags that shouldn't be pushed. For example, if I tagged a release yesterday that was never deployed, I don't want to push that one. The equivalent git command to push only the one tag would be:

git push origin "refs/tags/v2022-01-01.1"