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Allow for "tag already exists" in cz bump github action #89
Description
I have commitizen-tools/commitizen-action@0.21.0 in my workflow running cz bump, but as I've been working on getting it set up properly, I've run into an issue where if it fails and I need to re-run the workflow it's guaranteed to fail on retry because cz bump fails if the target tag already exists.
Commitizen version: 3.30.0
cz --no-raise 21 bump --yes --changelog --check-consistency
bump: version 0.3.0 → 0.4.0
tag to create: 0.4.0
increment detected: MINOR
[main 216[83](https://github.com/ascend-io/gitops-glue/actions/runs/11524448035/job/32084730449#step:6:84)1d] bump: version 0.3.0 → 0.4.0
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
fatal: tag '0.4.0' already exists
I would like for an option to just continue if the target tag already exists. I'm looking at ignoring raise on exit code 7 for BumpTagFailedError, but I suspect that includes failure scenarios that I would not want to ignore where the tag bump really just failed.
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bearomorphism commentedon May 10, 2026
Triage: feature request — add an option to
continuewhen the target tag already exists (re-run safety).Out of scope for the bug/doc sweep I'm doing today, leaving for maintainer review.
Until then, the cleanest workaround is a guard on the workflow itself so the bump job is skipped when the tag already exists: