Script to generate Github Releases

Github Release is a higher concept based on the git tags. A Release is created from an existing tag and can contain additional information like software package, release notes and links to binary files, for other people to use.

If you can easily manipulate Git elements using the git commands, for the Github objects like Releases we must pass via the Github API (https://docs.github.com/v3/).

Here is a script that allows you to generate Github Releases easily : https://github.com/martinraynov/gh_release_generator

Personally I use this script in a Jenkins pipeline job. Once the build of my application is done and all the tests have passed successfully the job generates automatically the new Github Release.