goreleaser/www/content/environment.md

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GitHub Token

GoReleaser requires a GitHub API token with the repo scope selected to deploy the artifacts to GitHub. You can create one here.

This token should be added to the environment variables as GITHUB_TOKEN. Here is how to do it with Travis CI: Defining Variables in Repository Settings.

Alternatively, you can provide the GitHub token in a file. GoReleaser will check ~/.config/goreleaser/github_token by default, you can change that in the .goreleaser.yml file:

# .goreleaser.yml
env_files:
  github_token: ~/.path/to/my/token

GitHub Enterprise

You can use GoReleaser with GitHub Enterprise by providing its URLs in the .goreleaser.yml configuration file:

# .goreleaser.yml
github_urls:
  api: https://git.company.com/api/v3/
  upload: https://git.company.com/api/uploads/
  download: https://git.company.com/

If none are set, they default to GitHub's public URLs.

IMPORTANT: be careful with the URLs, they may change from one instalation to another. If they are wrong, goreleaser will fail at some point, so, make sure they're right before opening an issue. See for example #472.

The dist folder

By default, GoReleaser will create its artifacts in the ./dist folder. If you must, you can change it by setting it in the .goreleaser.yml file:

# .goreleaser.yml
dist: another-folder-that-is-not-dist

Using the main.version

Default wise GoReleaser sets three ldflags:

• main.version: Current Git tag (the v prefix is stripped) or the name of the snapshot, if you're using the --snapshot flag
• main.commit: Current git commit SHA
• main.date: Date according RFC3339

You can use it in your main.go file:

package main

import "fmt"

var (
	version = "dev"
	commit  = "none"
	date    = "unknown"
)

func main() {
  fmt.Printf("%v, commit %v, built at %v", version, commit, date)
}

You can override this by changing the ldflags option in the build section.

Customizing Git

By default, GoReleaser uses full length commit hashes when setting a main.commit ldflag or creating filenames in --snapshot mode.

You can use short, 7 character long commit hashes by setting it in the .goreleaser.yml:

# .goreleaser.yml
git:
  short_hash: true