Travis CI deploy JAR to Github master - github

Question

Refs: http://docs.travis-ci.com/user/deployment/ and http://docs.travis-ci.com/user/deployment/releases/
I'm tring to deploy my JAR file to Github, but I don't want to create a tag every time.
I know it is not the correct behaviour, but I want to do this way if possible.
Building process is running fine, but when I use this travis.yml file:
language: java
deploy:
provider: releases
api-key: "<my_api_key>"
file: "teapot-1.2.5-beta.jar"
skip_cleanup: true
on:
branch: master
I got this error:
Installing deploy dependencies
Fetching: addressable-2.3.6.gem (100%)
Successfully installed addressable-2.3.6
Fetching: multipart-post-2.0.0.gem (100%)
Successfully installed multipart-post-2.0.0
Fetching: faraday-0.9.1.gem (100%)
Successfully installed faraday-0.9.1
Fetching: sawyer-0.6.0.gem (100%)
Successfully installed sawyer-0.6.0
Fetching: octokit-3.7.0.gem (100%)
Successfully installed octokit-3.7.0
5 gems installed
Fetching: mime-types-2.4.3.gem (100%)
Successfully installed mime-types-2.4.3
1 gem installed dpl.2
Preparing deploy
Logged in as Carlos Magno Oliveira de Abreu
Deploying to repo: icemagno/teapot
Current tag is: dpl.3
Deploying application
/home/travis/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p551/gems/octokit-3.7.0/lib/octokit/response/raise_error.rb:16:in `on_complete': POST https://api.github.com/repos/icemagno/teapot/releases: 422 - Validation Failed (Octokit::UnprocessableEntity)
Error summary:
resource: Release
code: missing_field
field: tag_name
resource: Release
code: custom
field: tag_name
message: tag_name is not well-formed
resource: Release
code: custom
message: Published releases must have a valid tag // See: https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/releases/#create-a-release
...
failed to deploy
This is the basic deploy config:
language: java
deploy:
provider: releases
api-key: "<my_key_again>"
file: "teapot-1.2.5-beta.jar"
skip_cleanup: true
on:
tags: true
all_branches: true
But I have not created any tag because I don't want to do this for now.
EDIT
I've created a tag, now I need to change .travis.yml file to test some configurations and GitHub is not allowing me to change anything on tag files (ok, must be this way) cr#p !

Answer 1

If I may, I believe what you are looking for is the same as I was.
Basically add something like the following to your .travis.yml:
before_deploy:
- git config --global user.email "builds#travis-ci.com"
- git config --global user.name "Travis CI"
- export GIT_TAG=$TRAVIS_BRANCH-v0.1.$TRAVIS_BUILD_NUMBER
- git tag $GIT_TAG -a -m "Generated tag from TravisCI for build $TRAVIS_BUILD_NUMBER"
- git push -q https://<your-api-key>#github.com/<your_name>/<project_name> --tags
deploy:
skip_cleanup: true
provider: releases
api_key:
secure: [redacted]
file:
- "your_file"
on:
tags: false
all_branches: true
branches:
except:
- /^*-v[0-9]/
Careful doing this though, as messing up while working with these particular config options might lead to an infinite Travis-CI build loop, which will pollute your build and tag history, and not be easy to cleanup.