From 7119480f84dd6aad6fe94372c0f5faeeada47866 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: filtered <176114999+webfiltered@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 16:20:21 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] [CI] Add pre-release options (#722)

Adds release steps to README.
---
 .github/workflows/release-version.yml |  7 ++++++-
 README.md                             | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-version.yml b/.github/workflows/release-version.yml
index c35fd10f71..10b034f73c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release-version.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-version.yml
@@ -9,7 +9,12 @@ on:
         required: true
         default: patch
         type: choice
-        options: [patch, minor, major]
+        options: [patch, minor, major, prepatch, preminor, premajor, prerelease]
+      pre_release:
+        description: Pre-release ID (suffix)
+        required: false
+        default: ""
+        type: string
 
 jobs:
   bump-version:
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d5b6e3244b..1d79f8c7ce 100755
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -138,6 +138,25 @@ graph.start()
 
 Please [open an issue](https://github.com/Comfy-Org/litegraph.js/issues/) on the GitHub repo.
 
+# Development
+
+Litegraph has no runtime dependencies. The build tooling has been tested on Node.JS 20.18.x
+
+## Releasing
+
+Use GitHub actions to release normal versions.
+
+1. Run the `Release a New Version` action, selecting the version incrment type
+1. Merge the resultion PR
+1. A GitHub release is automatically published on merge
+
+### Pre-release
+
+The action directly translates `Version increment type` to the npm version command. `Pre-release ID (suffix)` is the option for the `--preid` argument.
+
+e.g. Use `prerelease` increment type to automatically bump the patch version and create a pre-release version. Subsequent runs of prerelease will update the prerelease version only.
+Use `patch` when ready to remove the pre-release suffix.
+
 ## Contributors
 
 You can find the [current list of contributors](https://github.com/Comfy-Org/litegraph.js/graphs/contributors) on GitHub.