Provide scripts for tagging releases

README.md

@@ -178,6 +178,22 @@ deployed in the evening, if there are new commits that are not yet on Heroku.
 
 ### Tagging
 
+#### Update:
+
+Please use one of the provided scripts in `bin`
+
+```./bin/tag-release.sh```
+
+or
+
+```./bin/tag-hotfix.sh```
+
+and follow the instructions. 
+
+Note: Please make sure you're one the master branch first.
+
+#### Manual Way (deprecated)
+
 Whenever you do a new release, please tag the current commit after merging with the current date:
 
     git tag -a v2019-09-10

bin/tag-hotfix.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+BRANCH="$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)"
+if [[ "$BRANCH" != "master" ]]; then
+  echo "Not on master branch, aborting"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+today=`date "+%Y-%m-%d"`
+hotfix_tag=v$today.hotfix
+git tag -am "Hotfix release to production on $today" $hotfix_tag
+echo "please push the tag with"
+echo "git push origin $hotfix_tag"

bin/tag-release.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+BRANCH="$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)"
+if [[ "$BRANCH" != "master" ]]; then
+  echo "Not on master branch, aborting"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+today=`date +"%Y-%m-%d"`
+tag=v${today}
+git tag -a $tag -m "Release to production on ${today}"
+echo "please push the tag with"
+echo "git push origin $tag"