Uplift Github Action

A Github Action for the Uplift semantic versioning tool.

Basic Usage

Easily integrate uplift into your existing workflows, by using v2 of the action:

steps:
  - uses: actions/checkout@v4
    with:
      fetch-depth: 0

  - uses: gembaadvantage/uplift-action@v2
    with:
      args: release
    env:
      GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Triggering another Workflow

If you need uplift to trigger another workflow after it has tagged your repository, you will need to associate a custom personal access token with the GITHUB_TOKEN. This is by design.

steps:
  - uses: actions/checkout@v4
    with:
      fetch-depth: 0
      token: ${{ secrets.GH_UPLIFT }}

  - uses: gembaadvantage/uplift-action@v2
    with:
      args: release
    env:
      GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GH_UPLIFT }}

Customising the Git Author

By default, uplift will interact with git as the uplift-bot. To configure this behaviour, you have two options:

1. Set the git author directly through uplift configuration:

   # .uplift.yaml
   commitAuthor:
     name: 'joe.bloggs'
     email: 'joe.bloggs@gmail.com'

2. Import a GPG key (recommended):

   steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       with:
         fetch-depth: 0
         token: ${{ secrets.GH_UPLIFT }}
   
     - uses: gembaadvantage/uplift-action@v2
       with:
         args: release
       env:
         GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GH_UPLIFT }}
         UPLIFT_GPG_KEY: "${{ secrets.UPLIFT_GPG_KEY }}"
         UPLIFT_GPG_PASSPHRASE: "${{ secrets .UPLIFT_GPG_PASSPHRASE }}"
         UPLIFT_GPG_FINGERPRINT: "${{ secrets.UPLIFT_GPG_FINGERPRINT }}"

Inputs

Customisable inputs can be provided through the with keys:

Name	Required	Type	Default	Description
version	No	String	latest	The uplift version, see available
install-only	No	Boolean	false	Set to true to install uplift and expose the binary on the current PATH
args	Yes	String		A list of arguments that are used when running Uplift