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Include tag message as a CI CD pipeline variable

Bala Kumar requested to merge 22831-release-description-and-tag-message-ci-variable into master

What does this MR do and why?

Introduces the CI variable $CI_COMMIT_TAG_MESSAGE variable.

The other variable $CI_RELEASE_DESCRIPTION is covered in !98447 (merged)

Documentation inclusion for both variables will be covered in a separate MR.

Related to #22831 (closed)

Screenshots or screen recordings

release_tag_message_ci_variable

How to set up and validate locally

image: alpine:latest

stages:
  - test

prod:
  stage: test
  script:
    - echo "Commit tag message is $CI_COMMIT_TAG_MESSAGE"
  • Use the above simple CI configuration to a test project in local and create an annotated tag and trigger a pipeline.
  • The job logs should include the variable message being printed when echoed as shown in video above.

MR acceptance checklist

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Edited by Bala Kumar

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