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gt-tool

CLI tools for interacting with the Gitea API. Use interactively to talk to your Gitea instance, or automatically via a CI/CD pipeline.

Usage

Usage: gt-tool [OPTIONS] <COMMAND>

Commands:
  list-releases   
  create-release  
  upload-release  
  help            Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -u, --url <GITEA_URL>    [env: GTTOOL_GITEA_URL=]
  -r, --repo <REPO>        [env: GTTOOL_FQRN=]
  -p, --project <PROJECT>  Path to project (relative or absolute). Used to select configuration.
  -h, --help               Print help
  -V, --version            Print version

Authentication

Authentication is token-based via environment variable RELEASE_KEY_GITEA.

Ensure your token has the appropriate access for your usage. This depends on what you're doing and how your Gitea instance is configured, so you'll have to figure it out for yourself.

Most likely, you will need a token with "repository: read-and-write" permissions. See Gitea's documentation on token scopes for more.

<GITEA_URL>:

The Gitea server URL must be provided with --url or -u on the command line, or via the environment variable GTTOOL_GITEA_URL. Use the base URL for your Gitea instance.

E.g.: Using the Gitea org's demo instance, it would be: --url "https://demo.gitea.com/"

<REPO>:

The repository name must be provided with --repo or -u on the command line, or via the environment variable GTTOOL_GITEA_FQRN ("fully qualified repo name"). Use the format <owner>/<repo>, which is the route immediately following the GITEA_URL base. This is how GitHub and Gitea identify repos in the URL, and how Golang locates it's modules, so this tool does the same.

E.g.: --repo "go-gitea/gitea" would name the Gitea repo belonging to the go-gitea organization.

<PROJECT>

Override the default (current-directory) project name when searching through the config files for this project's settings.

See configuration for details on format and file locations.

<COMMAND>:

One of these, defaults to help:

Command Description
list-releases Prints all releases for the given repo.
create-release Creates a new release. It is recommended to use the web page, but this will work in case you need it.
upload-release Uploads one-or-more files to an existing release, identified by it's tag name.
help prints the help text (the usage summary above).