Download Latest Release

[markfaine]

Can you add a latest tag or symlink it in some way? The use case is downloading the newest version from CLI without knowing the version number of the latest version. There may already be a way to do this but I can't figure it out if there is.
Thank you

[arl]

Hi @markfaine.
There's no one liner to do that unfortunately, since the version number is part of the file name to download.

You'd probably have to use GitHub API or maybe just simply list git tags on the repo and forge the filename you want to download based on the latest tag.

What's your use case? I'm curious

[markfaine]

Ansible role for setting up my development environment. Nothing too important :) I was trying to use 'latest' as the default but also allow setting a variable for a specific version. It seems like such an obvious need, I'm surprised github doesn't already have a way to do it.

[arl]

For reference, it doesn't seen like that is something one can do without some script-fu or additional tools.
More info there https://gist.github.com/steinwaywhw/a4cd19cda655b8249d908261a62687f8

[arl]

Closing as wontfix since github doesn't support that at the moment.

[arl]

fyi see #104

[markfaine]

Thanks @arl

This works:

repo="https://api.github.com/repos/arl/gitmux/releases/latest" 
wget -q -O - "$repo"  \
 | jq -r '.assets[] | select(.name | contains("linux_amd64")).browser_download_url'

You can also replace "linux_amd64" with whatever architecture or use a variable.