GitHub Action

repo-release-tools ships a reusable composite action in action.yml.

Minimal usage

- uses: actions/checkout@v6

- uses: Anselmoo/repo-release-tools@v0.1.7
  with:
    check-branch-name: "true"
    check-changelog: "true"
    check-commit-subject: "true"
    check-dirty-tree: "false"

What it checks

branch naming
changelog updates for feature/fix/breaking work
conventional commit subjects
optional clean-worktree enforcement

Important behavior

Tag-triggered workflows skip branch-name validation automatically.
The action installs repo-release-tools from the action checkout, not from the consumer repository.

Useful inputs

check-branch-name
check-changelog
check-commit-subject
check-dirty-tree
branch-name
branch-ref-type
commit-subject
changelog-file

check-dirty-tree defaults to false because a GitHub Action checkout is usually clean already. It is still useful for workflows that generate files and want to assert that the job did not leave uncommitted changes behind.

Docs publishing

This repository also ships a minimal Pages workflow that publishes docs/ directly. No extra docs framework is required for the current interface.