Rename tag to label

[asbjornu]

In GitVersion, a tag is not the same thing as a Git tag, which I find a bit confusing. Wanting to reference a Git tag and use it as the value of the pre-release tag makes it even more confusing. It is currently not possible to do this, but discussions on Gitter might indicate that something like this would be very handy:

branches:
  release:
    tag: useLatestTagLabel

However, it would be easier to understand if we renamed the pre-release tag to label:

branches:
  release:
    label: useFromLatestTag

This would allow for alternating pre-release labels on the same branch, such that a beta could be promoted to rc and stay at rc without having to tag every commit on that branch.

Thoughts?

[JakeGinnivan]

Maybe just pre-release, that is what semver.org calls it?

We can probably include this change in v4 if we move on it soon. Thoughts @asbjornu

[asbjornu]

@JakeGinnivan: What SemVer says about this that I can find, is:

Additional labels for pre-release and build metadata are available as extensions to the MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH format.

And:

A pre-release version MAY be denoted by appending a hyphen and a series of dot separated identifiers immediately following the patch version.

So it seems to call these pre-release strings for labels or identifiers. Perhaps pre-release-identifier or pre-release-label could work? I think just label works too, but identifier is too generic.

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[asbjornu]

If no one objects, I'd like to conclude this discussion with renaming tag to label. PRs welcome. 😃 🙏

[HHobeck]

If no one objects, I'd like to conclude this discussion with renaming tag to label. PRs welcome.

I like your idea to rename it to label. :)

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