Thanks for this fantastic tool!

Depending on the release, we'd like to set push arguments to set CI/CD variables to toggle certain deployment steps. Whether a certain deployment step is active, is up to whoever creates that release.

To achieve this, I wrote a simple plugin which looks as follows:

import { Plugin } from 'release-it';
import inquirer from 'inquirer';

class ReleaseOptions extends Plugin {
  async init() {
    const { variables } = this.options;
    const { booleans } = variables;

    const prompts = Object.entries(booleans).map(([name, defaultValue]) => ({
      type: 'confirm',
      name: `CI_CUSTOM_${name}`,
      default: defaultValue,
    }));

    await inquirer
      .prompt(prompts)
      .then((answers) => {
        const pushArgs = [
          ...this.config.getContext('git.pushArgs'),
          ...Object.entries(answers).map(
            ([name, value]) => `-o ci.variable="${name}=${value}"`
          ),
        ];

        this.debug(pushArgs);
        this.config.setContext({ git: { pushArgs } });
      })
      .catch((error) => {
        this.log.error(error);
      });

    return true;
  }
}

export default ReleaseOptions;

Configuration in package.json is:

{
  "release-it": {
    "plugins": {
      "./release-options.js": {
        "variables": {
          "booleans": {
            "FOO": true,
            "BAR": false
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

git.pushArgs is modified using this.config.setContext which works. However, when the actual git push is executed in lib/plugin/git/Git.js in push(), the options are passed as a default argument using args = this.options.pushArgs. args contains the push arguments as defined when initializing the plugin and defaults to [ '--follow-tags' ] and does not contain the changes made using config.setContext() which would look like this:

[
  '--follow-tags',
  '-o ci.variable="CI_CUSTOM_FOO=true"',
  '-o ci.variable="CI_CUSTOM_BAR=false"'
]

To fix this, I see two options:

1. I made a stupid mistake and could easily fix this by e.g. using a different plugin hook / setting the arguments in a different way
2. push() resolves args using config.getContext

Can you please help me resolve this?