gh-release

Interactive command line tool that let's you to create Github releases with auto-generated release message from commits

Install

1. Install the binary

go install -i github.com/hassansin/gh-release

Make sure $GOPATH/bin is added your $PATH:

export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin

2. Create a Github Personal Access Token and add it to your ~/.gitconfig file:

[github]
	user = github-username
	token = access-token

3. (optional) When editing release message, it will open the editor found in $EDITOR environment variable, will fallback to vim if not found. You can set the environment variable to the path of your editor executable.

export EDITOR="/usr/bin/code -w"

Usage

Just run gh-release and follow the prompts.

The auto-generated release message will be commented out, you need to uncomment the lines that you want to be in your release body.