Publishing a release for an old tag

[alvmarrod]

I have setup goreleaser for my project, and both in github and locally the release completes successfully. However, the latest tag avaiable (and only one so far) is not on the latest commit.

Because of this tag commit != current commit condition, I believe my only option is to run the releaser using the flag --snapshot, but this (if I understand it correctly) disables the publishing of the results.

goreleaser release --snapshot --clean
  • skipping announce, publish and validate...
  • cleaning distribution directory
...

I have also tried to manually publish this tag, by executing the release manually and locally on the tag commit. However this also fails, as goreleaser complains about "git is on dirty state":

  • could not find a configuration file, using defaults...
  • loading environment variables
    • using token from  $GITHUB_TOKEN
  • getting and validating git state
    • couldn't find any tags before "1.0.0"
    • git state                                      commit=ac668f88b8003440a0c0005473c9672829b86bc5 branch=HEAD current_tag=1.0.0 previous_tag=<unknown> dirty=true
  ⨯ release failed after 0s                  error=git is in a dirty state

Any idea on how could I accomplish the publication of this release?

[caarlos0]

you can use --skip=validate, which will release anyway

although the better approach is to checkout said tag, and run goreleaser from it.

[alvmarrod]

Thanks Carlos, I will try with this option now and get back to you.

About checkout and run there, I am afraid I can't do it. As shared in the question, it would fail complaining about error=git is in a dirty state. The reason is goreleaser has just been setup, so in the tag commit the file .goreleaser.yaml didn't exist.

I need this file to specify my main location, so if I provide that file the error above would appear again as I can't execute gorelease release on the commit without further changes. Sample here for the sake of completeness (again, execution with .goreleaser.yaml is the second output block in the question):

 goreleaser release
  • could not find a configuration file, using defaults...
  • loading environment variables
    • using token from  $GITHUB_TOKEN
  • getting and validating git state
    • couldn't find any tags before "1.0.0"
    • git state                                      commit=ac668f88b8003440a0c0005473c9672829b86bc5 branch=HEAD current_tag=1.0.0 previous_tag=<unknown> dirty=false
  • parsing tag
  • setting defaults
  • ensuring distribution directory
  • setting up metadata
  • writing release metadata
  • loading go mod information
    • pipe skipped                                   reason=not a go module
  • build prerequisites
  • building binaries
    • building                                       binary=dist/pi-monitor-api_windows_386/pi-monitor-api.exe
    • building                                       binary=dist/pi-monitor-api_linux_386/pi-monitor-api
    • building                                       binary=dist/pi-monitor-api_windows_arm64/pi-monitor-api.exe
    • building                                       binary=dist/pi-monitor-api_windows_amd64_v1/pi-monitor-api.exe
    • building                                       binary=dist/pi-monitor-api_linux_amd64_v1/pi-monitor-api
    • building                                       binary=dist/pi-monitor-api_darwin_arm64/pi-monitor-api
    • building                                       binary=dist/pi-monitor-api_linux_arm64/pi-monitor-api
    • building                                       binary=dist/pi-monitor-api_darwin_amd64_v1/pi-monitor-api
  ⨯ release failed after 0s                  error=build for pi-monitor-api does not contain a main function
Learn more at https://goreleaser.com/errors/no-main

[caarlos0]

checkout the commit, copy the .goreleaser.yml config file, run it with --skip=validate (or move the file outside the git repo)