use different to master branch as release branch on semantic release

Question

When Im trying to use another release branch for trigger a release with semantic release. Semantic release is telling me

This test run was triggered on the branch jose, while semantic-release is configured to only publish from master, therefore a new version won’t be published.`

Is there any way to set up another release branch?

This is my release.config.js file

  release: {
    branches: ['jose']
  },
  dryRun: false,
  plugins: [
    "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer",
    "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator",
    "@semantic-release/changelog",
    "@semantic-release/github",
    ["@semantic-release/git", {
                "message": "chore(release): ${nextRelease.version} \n\n${nextRelease.notes}"
    }],
    ["semantic-release-slack-bot", {
      "notifyOnSuccess": true,
      "notifyOnFail": true,
      "onSuccessTemplate": {
        "text": "A new version of $package_name with version $npm_package_version has been released at $repo_url!"
      }
    }]
  ]
}

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 23 '20 at 07:30

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I had a similar problem, in my case the branch exists only locally not on the remote repo. Take a look at this github issue

answered Sep 23 '20 at 07:30

admir86

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man i really wish the err msg in your terminal just said "did you forget to push to remote?" or something simple – Daniel Lizik May 24 '22 at 03:33

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 19 '20 at 15:18

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Try to run:

npx semantic-release --branches jose

edited Dec 19 '20 at 15:18

hY8vVpf3tyR57Xib

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answered Jun 28 '20 at 13:45

Mingbo Peng

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This should be `--branches`, not `--branch`. – christian.thomas Nov 11 '20 at 18:26

use different to master branch as release branch on semantic release

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