ver-bump
v1.1.8
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This script automates bumping the git software project's version using automation. It does several things that are typically required for releasing a Git repository, like git tagging, automatic updating of CHANGELOG.md, and incrementing the version number
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ver-bump
A fully automated handy CLI utility that takes care of releasing GitHub software projects, written in 100% pure bash.
Highlights 📦🚀
It does several things that are typically required for releasing a Git repository:
- Create a release branch from your current branch (should be a feature or develop branch, following the Git branch-based workflow, and tags the release
- Enforces Semantic Versioning specification
- Avoid potential mistakes associated with manual releases, such as forgetting a step
- Create and update a changelog file automatically
- Pushes release to a remote
- Leaves merging the release branch to the development branch to the user
Table of Contents
- Release Steps 👣
- Release Steps: In detail 🔎
- Requirements
- Installation
- Usage
- Options
- Example
- Tests
- Contributing
- License
Release Steps 👣
The command ver-bump
will execute the following steps:
Verify + Prepare Release
- Verify some commits exist
- Selects a semantic version number for the release branch & tag
- Increments / suggests a semantic version number for the release and its tag
- Checks to see a tagged release with the chosen version already exists
Create Release
- Bump version number in
package.json
- Write
CHANGELOG.md
- Create release branch
- Commit changes to files made by this script
- Create a Git tag
- Push release branch + tag to remote
Release Steps: In detail 🔎
Requirements
In order to use ver-bump
you need:
- To host your project code in a Git repository
- Have Git installed in your environment
- Have
npm
andnode
installed
Installation
Install the script globally via npm, and use it in any local Git repository to release your project:
$ npm install -g ver-bump
Usage
Pre-requisites
- Make sure you have
package.json
file in your project and it contains a"version": "x.x.x"
parameter - You have done some work and have some existing commits
- You have the ability to push to your Git remote via the Git CLI
CLI
$ ver-bump [-v <version no.>] [-m <release message>] [-j <file1>] [-j <file2>].. [-n] [-p] [-b] [-h]
Options
-v <version number> Specify a manual version number
-m <release message> Custom release message
-f <filename.json> Update version number inside JSON files.
* For multiple files, add a separate -f option for each one,
* For example:
./ver-bump.sh -f src/plugin/package.json -f composer.json
-p <repository alias> Push commits to remote repository, eg `-p Origin`
-n Turns off automatic commit
* You may want to do that yourself, for example.
-b Don't create automatic `release-<version>` branch.
-c Disable updating CHANGELOG.md automatically with new commits
since last release tag.
-l Pause enabled for amending CHANGELOG.md
-h Show help message.
Example
This example assumes that a
package.json
containsversion: "1.0.0"
, and the user is working in the branch to be released with pre-existing un-released commits.
This will create a new Git branch called
release-1.0.1
and a Git tag namedv1.0.1
:$ ver-bump
Output:
Current version read from <package.json> file: 1.0.0 Enter a new version number or press <enter> to use [1.0.1]: <pressed enter> –––––– ✅ Updated file <package.json> from 1.0.0 -> 1.0.1 ✅ Updated [CHANGELOG.md] file Make adjustments to [CHANGELOG.md] if required now. Press <enter> to continue. Creating new release branch... ✅ Switched to branch 'release-1.0.1' M CHANGELOG.md M package.json Committing... ✅ [release-1.0.1 ace8b1e] Updated package.json, Updated CHANGELOG.md, Bumped 1.0.0 –> 1.0.1 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) ✅ Added GIT tag Push tags to <origin>? [N/y]: n –––––– ✅ Bumped 1.0.0 –> 1.0.1 🏁 Done!
After checking out the changes in the branch and confirming them, test the release, and push the release branch to your remote if you didn't choose to push it automatically. Alternatively, use
$ ver-bump -p origin
to bypass the prompt and push the release branch anyway to the remote automatically.If your code checks out, then open a Pull Request to merge the release branch into your
develop
or main branch.You can merge the release branch into your development branch or main branch like this, without fast-forwarding so that the branch topology is preseved as you're merging in a release branch that hasn't diverged (apart from new changes to
CHANGELOG.md
andpackage.json
) and you want to ensure it's clearly evident when reading the history that a merge was performed, as opposed to a fast-forward merge, where new commits performed by the merge will become descendents of the last commit before the merge.A release branch shouldn't normally diverge from the branch it was created during the time
ver-bump
is operating, so a non-fastforward should be possible instead of a normal merge, which would simply looks like a new commit was made to the main or development branch.$ git checkout develop # Switch to development branch from the new release branch $ git merge --no-ff release-1.0.1 # Merge the new release branch to your development branch
Tests
This project uses bats to test the functionality of ver-bump.
To run the tests, first install the pre-requisites:
Linux/MacOS:
$ npm run tests:install
Windows:
$ npm run tests:install:windows
And finally, run the test suite:
$ npm run tests:run
Output:
ver-bump.bats
✓ can run script
✓ process-arguments: -h: display help message
✓ process-arguments: -v: fail when not supplying version
✓ process-arguments: -v x.x.x: succeed when supplying version
✓ process-arguments: -m: fail when not supplying release note
✓ process-arguments: -m <note>: succeed when supplying release note
✓ process-arguments: -f: fail when not supplying filenames
✓ process-arguments: -f <filename.json>: succeed with multiple filenames
✓ process-arguments: -p: fail when not supplying push destination
✓ process-arguments: -p <repo destination>: succeed when supplying a destination
✓ process-arguments: -n: set flag to prevent committing at the end
✓ process-arguments: -b: set flag to disable creating a release branch
✓ process-arguments: -c: set flag to disable creating/updating CHANGELOG.md
✓ process-arguments: -l: set flag to enable pausing after CHANGELOG.md is created
✓ process-arguments: fail on not-existing argument
✓ set-v-suggest: increments version
✓ set-v-suggest: fails to increments non SemVer version
✓ process-version: fail on entering non-SemVer input
✓ process-version: patch of the version from json file should be bumped +1
✓ do-packagefile-bump: can bump version in package.json + lock file
✓ bump-json-files: can bump version in a json file
✓ bump-json-files: can fail bumping a json file when a version already exists in file
✓ bump-json-files: can fail bumping a json file when no version found inside it
✓ check-branch-notexist: can detect branch DOES exist
✓ check-branch-notexist: can confirm branch DOES'NT exist
✓ do-branch: can create a release branch
✓ do-tag: create a tag
✓ check-tag-exists: check doesn't exist
✓ check-tag-exists: check it exists
✓ do-changelog: can create a CHANGELOG.md
30 tests, 0 failures
Contributing
I'd love you to contribute to @jv-k/ver-bump
, pull requests are welcome for submitting issues and bugs!
License
The scripts and documentation in this project are released under the MIT license.