I understand the low level details of why tags don't work that way and why git leaves that "partial release" or "subtree release" as a higher level concept for whoever is making the tags in how they want to name them.
I know there are monorepo tools out there that do things like automate partial releases include building the git tag names and helping you you get release trees, logs, and diffs when you need them.
I think a lot of monorepo work is using more domain specific release management tools on top of just git.
Also, yeah, my personal preference is to avoid monorepos, but I know a lot of teams like them and so I try my best to at least know the tools to getting what I can out of monorepos.
Do you have any examples of tooling like that, providing the monorepo tiling on top of git's porcelain so to speak? I had assumed that most of such tooling is bespoke, internal to each company. But if there's generic tooling out there, then I agree, it's useful to know such.
That's absolutely an issue that a lot of it is bespoke and proprietary.
I found someone else's list of well known open source tools (in the middle of a big marketing page advertising monorepos as an ideal): https://monorepo.tools/#monorepo-tools
That list includes several I was aware and several I'd not yet heard of. It's the cross-over between monorepo management tool and build tool is. It's also interesting how many of the open source stacks are purely for or at least heavily specialized for Typescript monorepos.
I don't have any recommendations on which tools work well, just vaguely trying to keep up on the big names in case I need to learn one for a job, or choose one to better organize an existing repo.
I know there are monorepo tools out there that do things like automate partial releases include building the git tag names and helping you you get release trees, logs, and diffs when you need them.
I think a lot of monorepo work is using more domain specific release management tools on top of just git.
Also, yeah, my personal preference is to avoid monorepos, but I know a lot of teams like them and so I try my best to at least know the tools to getting what I can out of monorepos.