Semantic Release Stop

Semantic Release expects everything about the release to happen inside a single process run. If you need to do some things on one machine first (e.g. build for a different architecture) and then do the release on another, you have to run semantic-release twice.

However, there is currently no option to not push a Git tag as part of semantic-release, and if the tag is pushed the second (actual release) run will not find any changes, skipping the release.

This plugin stops the release process before the tag is pushed. To use it:

// Is this the preparation run (build)?
const isBuild = process.env.GITHUB_JOB === "build";

export default {
  branches: ["main"],
  plugins: [
    "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer",
    ...(isBuild
      ? [
          // Build
          [
            "@semantic-release/exec",
            {
              /* ... */
            },
          ],
          // Stop here!
          "semantic-release-stop",
        ]
      : [
          // Actual release
          "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator",
          "@semantic-release/npm", // e.g.
        ]),
  ],
};