logging the reasons why a pipe is being skipped

pipeline/brew/brew.go

@@ -103,7 +103,12 @@ func doRun(ctx *context.Context, client client.Client) error {
 			Name:  ss[1],
 		}
 	}
-	if ctx.Config.Brew.GitHub.Name == "" || !ctx.Publish {
+	if !ctx.Publish {
+		log.Println("Skipped because --skip-publish is set")
+		return nil
+	}
+	if ctx.Config.Brew.GitHub.Name == "" {
+		log.Println("Skipped because brew section is not configured")
 		return nil
 	}
 	path := filepath.Join(ctx.Config.Brew.Folder, ctx.Config.Build.Binary+".rb")

pipeline/env/env.go

@@ -4,13 +4,14 @@ package env
 
 import (
 	"errors"
+	"log"
 	"os"
 
 	"github.com/goreleaser/goreleaser/context"
 )
 
 // ErrMissingToken indicates an error when GITHUB_TOKEN is missing in the environment
-var ErrMissingToken = errors.New("Missing GITHUB_TOKEN")
+var ErrMissingToken = errors.New("missing GITHUB_TOKEN")
 
 // Pipe for env
 type Pipe struct{}
@@ -22,10 +23,11 @@ func (Pipe) Description() string {
 
 // Run the pipe
 func (Pipe) Run(ctx *context.Context) (err error) {
+	ctx.Token = os.Getenv("GITHUB_TOKEN")
 	if !ctx.Validate {
+		log.Println("Skipped validations because --skip-validate is set")
 		return nil
 	}
-	ctx.Token = os.Getenv("GITHUB_TOKEN")
 	if ctx.Token == "" {
 		return ErrMissingToken
 	}

pipeline/git/git.go

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ package git
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
+	"log"
 	"regexp"
 	"strings"
 
@@ -65,6 +66,7 @@ func (Pipe) Run(ctx *context.Context) (err error) {
 	// removes usual `v` prefix
 	ctx.Version = strings.TrimPrefix(tag, "v")
 	if !ctx.Validate {
+		log.Println("Skipped validation because --skip-validate is set")
 		return nil
 	}
 	return validate(commit, tag, ctx.Version)

pipeline/release/release.go

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ func (Pipe) Run(ctx *context.Context) error {
 
 func doRun(ctx *context.Context, client client.Client) error {
 	if !ctx.Publish {
+		log.Println("Skipped because --skip-publish is set")
 		return nil
 	}
 	log.Println("Creating or updating release", ctx.Git.CurrentTag, "on", ctx.Config.Release.GitHub.String())