publish-repo

Publish distribution files to a separate repository

A CLI tool that pushes dist to a separate repository. Intended to be used as part of semantic-release during a tagged build on TravisCI.

Example package.json:

{
  "name": "my-app",
  "scripts": {
    "build": "make",
    "publish-repo": "npm run build && publish-repo",
    "semantic-release": "semantic-release pre && npm publish && semantic-release post"
  },
  "author": "Tom Vincent <[e-mail]>",
  "publishRepo": {
    "repository": {
      "url": "https://github.com/me/my-app"
    },
    "artefacts": [
      "README.md",
      "bower.json",
      "dist/*"
    ]
  }
}

Example .travis.yml:

language: node_js
node_js:
  - '0.12'
after_success:
  - npm run semantic-release
  - npm run publish-repo

Usage

At minimum, publish-repo expects:

• dist to exist before it is ran
• To be ran within TravisCI
• The environment variable CI_USER_TOKEN to be set

Then add a publishRepo block to package.json:

"publishRepo": {
  "repository": {
    "url": "https://github.com/me/my-app"
  },
  "artefacts": [
    "README.md",
    "bower.json",
    "dist/*"
  ],
  "author": "Tom Vincent <[e-mail]>"
}

Each property can be overridden with a command line flag. See options.

With semantic-release

Want semantic-release to build and push dist? Here's one approach:

1. Initialise semantic-release with your repo as normal
2. Generate a new GitHub access token (only repo/public_repo scope is required)
3. Run travis env set CI_USER_TOKEN [token]
4. Add a npm build script that's suitable for your project
5. Add publish-repo as a dev dependency
6. Add it as an npm script
7. Call npm run publish-repo in Travis's after_script block

That's it!

See tlvince/tlvince-semantic-release-publish-repo as a working example.

Note: some versions of semantic-release-cli add a branches.except pattern to .travis.yml. This must be removed as publish-repo is ran during the tagged build.

Pro tip: create a machine/bot account on GitHub (generate a access token for this account) and add it as a collaborator (with push access) to your repo. Don't forget to pass --author-name and --author-email.

Options

--repository-url

The repository to push artefacts to. Must already exist. Defaults to publishRepo.repository.url.

--artefacts

A comma-separated list of files to commit/publish. Defaults to publishRepo.artefacts.

--author-name

The commit's author name (git config user.name). Defaults to publishRepo.author. Falls back to .package.json author.

--author-email

The commit's author email (git config user.email). Defaults to publishRepo.author. Falls back to .package.json author.

See also

• publish-dist
• publish-latest

Author

© 2015 Tom Vincent https://tlvince.com/contact

License

Released under the MIT License.