Get latest tag (not tag associated with latest commit)

[bakoontz2]

[bakoontz2]

See #31.

[WyriHaximus]

@bakoontz2 Just merged #33 to make sure we're running the latest actions/checkout version which should provide the tags. Could you rebase those changes in?

[WyriHaximus]

Also just merged #34 which adds testing to ensure the outputs will output something and otherwise fail the pipeline.

[bakoontz2]

This is great, thanks! So what do you need me to do? (Sorry, don't work much with github PRs...)

[WyriHaximus]

This is great, thanks! So what do you need me to do? (Sorry, don't work much with github PRs...)

Right so first add this repository as a remote:

git remote add upstream https://github.com/WyriHaximus/github-action-get-previous-tag.git

Then fetch from that remote:

git fetch upstream 

And then rebase:

git rebase -i upstream/master

[WyriHaximus]

Sorry, don't work much with github PRs...

Don't be, I gladly help out with any questions you might have 😃 .

[bakoontz2]

Ah, that makes sense. Done.

[WyriHaximus]

Thanks! (Didn't fully work out as expected, but it should be fine once merged.) Any clue why the tests are failing, it seems it isn't picking up the tag it should pick up?

[bakoontz2]

It's not really clear what is going on here: So the PR is running my CI tests?

At any rate, there were two issues: (1) Tags aren't copied over to forked repos by default. I had to do a git fetch --tags upstream; git push --tags. This fixed the previoustag failure. (2) There is no longer an error generated when there are no tags to be fetched. Code now checks for empty return value for tags after checking for errors. This fixed the previoustagwithfallback error.

The CI tests are returning successfully now.