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gh release edit: support --verify-tag like gh release create #7628
Description
Describe the feature or problem you’d like to solve
gh release edit apparently can also create a tag, just like gh release create, if the tag does not exist. Just as with create, this isn't always desired.
Proposed solution
Add --verify-tag, which gh release create already supports, and note that this behavior is present.
Additional context
Originally added for create in #6566.
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samcoe commentedon Jun 27, 2023
@lidavidm Thanks for the feature request. I am not opposed to it but could you elaborate a bit more on to when this feature would be useful to you? What is the scenario/workflow you are trying to improve?
lidavidm commentedon Jun 27, 2023
Ah, sorry.
Here's concretely what we do: Apache Arrow ADBC, being an Apache project, first tags a commit for RC, then votes on it. If that passes we retag the commit. So there's a script that creates a tag and a prerelease on GitHub, and a script that creates the final tag and updates the release.
When I forgot to push the final tag today, the final release instead unexpectedly pointed at main.
Of course, it's reasonable to say that pushing the tag should be automated, too, avoiding the problem (other scripts of ours do this). So mostly I just found the behavior here surprising (I personally would've expected an error, and didn't realize it was intended behavior until I read the docs for
create).samcoe commentedon Jun 27, 2023
@lidavidm Thanks for the further explanation. I think this feature makes sense to add. I am going to open it up for community contributions.
rajhawaldar commentedon Jun 29, 2023
@samcoe I will take this ahead.
lidavidm commentedon Jul 7, 2023
Thank you both!