svu

Semantic Version Util is a tool to manage semantic versions at ease!

You can print the current version, increase patch/minor/major manually or just get the next tag based on your git log!

Based on the log between the latest tag and HEAD, prints the next tag.

aliases: svu next and svu n

$ svu
v1.3.0

Prints the current tag with no changes.

alias: svu c

Examples:

$ svu current
v1.2.3

$ svu current
v1.2.3-alpha.1+22

Increases the major of the latest tag and prints it. As per the Semver spec, it'll also clear the pre-release and build identifiers are cleaned up.

Examples:

$ svu current
v1.2.3-alpha.2+123

$ svu major
v2.0.0

$ svu major --pre-release alpha.3 --build 243
v2.0.0-alpha.3+243

Increases the minor of the latest tag and prints it. As per the Semver spec, it'll also clear the pre-release and build identifiers are cleaned up.

alias: svu m

Examples:

$ svu current
v1.2.3-alpha.2+123

$ svu minor
v1.3.0

$ svu minor --pre-release alpha.3 --build 243
v1.3.0-alpha.3+243

Increases the patch of the latest tag and prints it. As per the Semver spec, if the version has a pre-release or build identifier, they'll be cleaned up and no patch increment will be made. You can force an increment by using --force-patch-increment.

alias: svu p

Examples:

$ svu current
v1.2.3-alpha.2+123

$ svu patch
v1.2.3

$ svu patch --force-patch-increment
v1.2.4

$ svu patch --pre-release alpha.3 --build 243
v1.2.3-alpha.3+243

By default svu will get the latest tag from the current branch. Using the --tag-mode flag this behaviour can be altered:

--strip-prefix removes any prefix from the version output. For example, v1.2.3 would be output as 1.2.3.

The default prefix is v, however a custom prefix can be supplied using --prefix. So for --prefix=foo/v --strip-prefix and tag foo/v1.2.3, the output would be 1.2.3.

You can use --pre-release and --build to set the respective Semver identifiers to the resulting version.

Setting the --force-patch-increment flag forces a patch version increment regardless of the commit message content.

The idea is that svu will just print things, so it's safe to run at any time.

You can create tags by wrapping it in an alias. For example, I have one like this:

alias gtn='git tag $(svu next)'

So, whenever I want to create a tag, I just run gtn.

brew install caarlos0/tap/svu

echo 'deb [trusted=yes] https://apt.fury.io/caarlos0/ /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/caarlos0.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install svu

echo '[caarlos0]
name=caarlos0
baseurl=https://yum.fury.io/caarlos0/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0' | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/caarlos0.repo
sudo yum install svu

docker run --rm -v $PWD:/tmp --workdir /tmp ghcr.io/caarlos0/svu --help

Make sure that $GOPATH/bin is in your $PATH, because that's where this gets installed:

go install github.com/caarlos0/svu@latest

Or download one from the releases tab and install manually.