feat: republish major tag on new npm version #20
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🧰 Changes
GitHub Actions allows you to define a tag for an action to use that doesn't have to be a fully qualified semver version. This means we can publish v2.3.0 onto npm and then re-push that to v2 as a git tag. This means we dont have to prompt users to upgrade any time we push a non-breaking change. This is a pretty common pattern that GitHub does themselves, and we also do it in rdme too!
So then instead of telling people to do this:
We can just do this
🧬 QA & Testing
If you run this:
You'll see how it works. We've automatically wired this up to the postversion event which is after the new npm version has been created and the new git tag is present.