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Release on push GitHub workflow

I have for a long time been using automatic creation of releases on push for some of the projects that I've been working on. So when merging a PR with labels release:{norelease,patch,minor,major} a workflow would create the according release, e.g. v1.2.3. Recently I had to expand this functionality so that both major and minor tags (mutable) will be produced, in this case v1 and v1.2. Here is what I ended up implementing.

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name: auto-release-on-push

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main

jobs:
  release-on-push:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    env:
      GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
    steps:
      - uses: rymndhng/release-on-push-action@v0.28.0
        id: release-on-push
        with:
          bump_version_scheme: patch
          tag_prefix: v
      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
      - uses: haya14busa/action-update-semver@v1.5.1
        with:
          major_version_tag_only: false
          tag: ${{ steps.release-on-push.outputs.tag_name }}

There are probably other solutions doing this and maybe even better, but this is what I ended up doing.