This is a language agnostic git versioning tool using tags.
There are plenty of tools available that can generate a version based on Git tags. However, they are typically:
- driven by commit messages, not configuration
- dependent on programming languages
I didn't want to have to introduce a programming language into my pipeline, especially when it was a language that had absolutely nothing to do with my pipeline, e.g. using an action implemented in JS in a Python project. I also didn't feel like commit messages were the way to go, typos happen, and then someone needs to go and update it manually.
The aim has been to have a very simple approach at versioning without introducing new dependencies, and for it to be configuration driven.
Inside your GHA pipeline, simply add the following step:
- uses: DragosDumitrache/versioner/[email protected]Incrementing the major or minor versions is done simply through a bump in your project's
corresponding version.json file. When this happens, the patch number is reset to 0. In all other cases, the patch
version is incrementally calculated from the number of commits added since the previous patch. For consecutive patches,
this approach works best with the Squash and Merge strategy.