Trigger a release pipeline when a semver tag is pushed.

Section: Ship progressively

Release from version tags

yaml
yaml
on:
  push:
    tags:
      - 'v*.*.*' 
Explanation

Tag-driven releases create a clean separation between normal CI and intentionally versioned releases.

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