Description
Description
Prior to v8, you could print current or upcoming version from any branch or detached head. This is no longer possible because v8 restricts all commands to only run on configured release branches (default: main).
Use cases
In v7 I found this very useful for testing whether I had a repo setup correctly and I also used it in CI to determine the current version and use that as the tag for a docker image.
Possible implementation
If possible it would be great to allow any operations on any branch/head when the --noop flag is provided and instead just warn the user that the operation is normally only allowed on the configured release branches.
Caveat
I have scoured the github issues and docs for any discourse on this and I realize that this may never be implemented as it is probably against this project's design principles. Thanks in advance for your consideration.
(Relevant: #823)
Current Workaround
For now since I use the python-semantic-release github action, after main builds a new tag is created, this kicks of the docker build and I just use ${{git.ref_name}} to name the image since that's the semver.