This task allows you to cascade back from a release back to the git repository. This is handy when you want to tag only build & git commits when a release is done.
Permissions for Releases
When you get the following error message running a release pipeline:
'Error: VS402904: Access denied: User does not have manage releases permission. Contact your release manager.'
Please set the 'Manage Releases' permission for this (or all release pipelines) for user ' Build Service (foxholenl)' to 'allow'
Arguments
Name
Description
tags
Tags to be added. Use a ',' to seperate multiple tags
tagtype
Can be 'Pipeline' for builds/multistage pipelines, 'Release' for releases and 'git' for add Git Annotated Tags
message
Message to be added for Git Annotated Tags. Is not used for pipelines and releases.
tagbuildartifacts
Only for releases. When true it also tags the used Build Artifacts.
tagBuildGitRepository
When true, it tags the commit of the build pipeline with an annotated tag.
taggitartifacts
Only for releases. When true it also tags the used Git Artifacts
tagbuildartifactsexclusions
Exclude Build artifacts that matches the given RegEx
taggitartifactsexclusions
Exclude Git artifacts that matches the given RegEx
Notes:
You can use #currentdate# in the tag or git commit message. This is replace with the current date
Only the first tag is passed as the Git Annotated Tag
For Git tagging, the tag must be unique. If the tag already exists you will receive a warning
