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Add CI_COMMIT_TAG_*

We currently have quite a few CI_COMMIT related variables available, most of course so we do not need the git command (and its setup) for many steps.

With the releases, we may want to do a few git-related tasks when creating a release.

For example, for the tag_name, we quite obviously may want to use ${CI_COMMIT_TAG:?}.

For the description we may want to do release notes. These could be very likely already be stored in the git tag message itself git tag --format='%(contents:subject)%0a%0a%(contents:body)' --list '${CI_COMMIT_TAG:?}'.

While we already have CI_COMMIT_MESSAGE available to get the commit message, we do not have the same available for the commit tag. Surely an oversight.

For consistency, I strongly urge we add these 5 variables:

|------------------------|-------|------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| CI_COMMIT_TAG_DESCRIPTION     | 14.5 | all  | The description of the tag. If the title is shorter than 100 characters, the message without the first line.    |
|------------------------|-------|------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| CI_COMMIT_TAG_MESSAGE         | 14.5 | all  | The full tag message.                                                                                           |
|------------------------|-------|------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| CI_COMMIT_TAG_TITLE           | 14.5 | all  | The title of the tag. The full first line of the message.                                                       |
|------------------------|-------|------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| CI_COMMIT_TAG_TIMESTAMP       | 14.5 | all  | The timestamp of the tag in the ISO 8601 format.                                                                |
|------------------------|-------|------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| CI_COMMIT_TAG_SIGNATURE       | 14.5 | all  | The signature of the tag.                                                                                       |
|------------------------|-------|------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

I've added as a separated item, CI_COMMIT_TAG_SIGNATURE as we most probably do not want it as part of the description (or message) but it IS part of the tag as a whole of course.

I also strongly urge to not split this up into too many small parts in terms of deliverables, for one, they are all super related, and having only 1 as 'MVP' would mean it could take years to get the others; only frustrating users (again) :)

this all to be consistent with:

|------------------------|-------|------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| CI_COMMIT_DESCRIPTION  | 10.8  | all  | The description of the commit. If the title is shorter than 100 characters, the message without the first line. |
|------------------------|-------|------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| CI_COMMIT_MESSAGE      | 10.8  | all  | The full commit message.                                                                                        |
|------------------------|-------|------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| CI_COMMIT_TITLE        | 10.8  | all  | The title of the commit. The full first line of the message.                                                    |
|------------------------|-------|------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| CI_COMMIT_TIMESTAMP    | 13.4  | all  | The timestamp of the commit in the ISO 8601 format.                                                             |
|------------------------|-------|------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Edited by Olliver Schinagl