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Generate Github release link

A bash script to easily generate a link for Github to create a new release with a new tag on the main branch.

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#!/bin/bash

# Get all tags
git fetch --tags

latest=$(git tag --sort=committerdate | tail -1)

# Get previous branch
next=$(echo ${latest} | awk -F. -v OFS=. '{$NF += 1 ; print}')

# Get remote URL, assumes ssh
remote=$(git config --get remote.origin.url)

# Replace some parts
remote=${remote/git@github.com:/}
remote=${remote/\.git/}

# Today
today=$(date +%d-%m-%Y)

# Final URL
url="https://github.com/$remote/releases/new?target=main&tag=$next&title=Deploy%20$today"

# Output to screen
echo $url

# Mac OSX copy to clipboard with pbcopy
( which pbcopy >/dev/null 2>&1 ) &&
	echo "$url" | pbcopy &&
	echo "[+] Copied to clipboard"

# Linux copy to both the selection buffer and clipboard with xclip.
( which xclip >/dev/null 2>&1 ) &&
	echo "$url" | xclip -i -sel c -f |xclip -i -sel p &&
	echo "[+] Copied to clipboard"