setup-msbuild/building-release.md

Building a release

This is a quick document to walk through the process of building and releasing.

Building the version

• Create a new branch [vMajor.Minor.Revision] for the version from dev
• Make changes in the new branch
• Build the branch/package
  • npm install
  • npm run build
  • npm run pack
• Prune the dependencies to only production
  • npm prune --production
• Uncomment node_modules in .gitignore for this branch only
• Commit the changes to the branch
• Push the new version branch
  • git push origin [vMajor.Minor.Revision]

Releasing the new version

• Draft a new release to [vMajor.Minor.Revision]

Update major version tag

If the update is non-breaking and the major version binding you can update the version tag to make the new release available to those binding to the major version tag (GitHub Actions Versioning).

Do this from the version branch after push (using a v1 tag as example only here)

git tag -fa v1 -m "Update v1 tag"
git push origin v1 --force