Actions SemVer Checker Action

Every time you publish a new version of a GitHub Action, say v1.2.3, it's customary to also update the tags for v1.2 and v1 to point to the same commit. That way people can subscribe to either an exact version or a floating version that's automatically updated when the action's author pushes a new version.

Unfortunately, GitHub's creative use of tags doesn't do this automatically and many actions don't auto-update their major and minor versions whenever they release a new patch.

You can run this action for your GitHub Action's repository to ensure the correct tags have been created and point to the correct commits.

Example output:

Annotations

🔴 Incorrect version

Version: v1 ref 59499a44cd4482b68a7e989a5e7dd781414facfa must match: v1.0.6 ref 1a13fd188ebef96fb179faedfabcc8de5cb6189d

🔴 Incorrect version

Version: v1.0 ref 59499a44cd4482b68a7e989a5e7dd781414facfa must match: v1.0.6 ref 1a13fd188ebef96fb179faedfabcc8de5cb6189d

🔴 Incorrect version

Version: latest ref 59499a44cd4482b68a7e989a5e7dd781414facfa must match: v1.0.6 ref 1a13fd188ebef96fb179faedfabcc8de5cb6189d

And a set of suggested Git commands to fix this:

Suggested fix:

git push origin 1a13fd188ebef96fb179faedfabcc8de5cb6189d:v1 --force
git push origin 1a13fd188ebef96fb179faedfabcc8de5cb6189d:v1.0 --force
git push origin 1a13fd188ebef96fb179faedfabcc8de5cb6189d:latest --force

Usage

- uses: actions/checkout@v4
  # Check out with fetch-depth: 0
  with:
    fetch-depth: 0

- uses: jessehouwing/actions-semver-checker@v1
  with:
    # Configures warnings for minor versions.
    # Default: true
    check-minor-version: ''

Example workflow:

name: Check SemVer

on:
  push:
    tags:
      - '*'
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  check-semver:
    concurrency:
      group: '${{ github.workflow }}'
      cancel-in-progress: true
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

      - uses: jessehouwing/actions-semver-checker@v1
        with:
          check-minor-version: true

Future updates

I expect to update this action to

• automatically update the major and minor version when a new patch version is created.
• ensure proper github releases exist for each tag
• ensure github release tags are signed
• drop a sarif file so the task can generate security issues.