bumpversion

Bump the version to a json file (VERSION.json)

Getting Started

Install the module with: npm install bumpversion

After the installation, you can run

$ bumpversion -m v0.1.1 -c 1

And it would return would something like

version bumped to:
 {
    "cache": 1,
    "timestamp": "2013-06-03T03:57:17.273Z",
    "main": "v0.1.1"
}

Meanwhile, a file named VERSION.json would be created with same content.

VERSION.json

• main A string field, indicating the main version. Could be something like "release/v1.2.3"
• cache A integer field indicating the cache version. A good usercase of this field is CDN versioning. If you do not specify "-c", this field would be self increment.
• timestamp A GMT timestamp indicating when the file being generated.
• last_commits If you are using git, you can call bumpversion -lc 3, it would include last three commits version hash and log message into last_commits.

Examples

If you execute "bumpversion" inside a git repository without specifying "-m", it will automatically take the branch name as main version.

Take git branch as main version.

Now I am inside a git repository:

$ git branch
  develop
  master
* release/0.1.1

Now execute "bumpversion"

$ bumpversion
version bumped to:
 {
    "cache": 5,
    "timestamp": "2013-06-03T03:53:55.972Z",
    "main": "release/0.1.1"
}

Include the last N GIT commit hash / log into VERSION.json

Including last 2 commits

bumpversion -lc 2
version bumped to:
 {
    "cache": 2,
    "timestamp": "2013-06-03T04:16:18.487Z",
    "main": "release/0.1.1",
    "last_commits": [
        "0f0ef3da436f5f5f71dcbf78ce720bcd2ff47e7e version bumped",
        "a9b14b2ee13a532534d8e75e0e83192534cbd8cc Merge branch 'release/0.1' into develop"
    ]
}

Including last 5 commits

bumpversion -lc 5
version bumped to:
 {
    "cache": 3,
    "timestamp": "2013-06-03T04:19:07.317Z",
    "main": "release/0.1.1",
    "last_commits": [
        "0f0ef3da436f5f5f71dcbf78ce720bcd2ff47e7e version bumped",
        "a9b14b2ee13a532534d8e75e0e83192534cbd8cc Merge branch 'release/0.1' into develop",
        "82f901f53fe61fc469c869a5da009aaec26d4b06 include the test",
        "73a5c11f9675f67556ad691f023255761568bf97 misc changes",
        "83c4c440ac4b47fc0d6fbb5f5b84339889e0e075 add package.json"
    ]
}

Usage

Displaying the help

gt; bumpversion -h

usage: bumpversion [-h] [-v] [-m M] [-c C] [-q] [-lc LC]

A tool to generate / bump the version to a JSON file.

Optional arguments:
  -h, --help     Show this help message and exit.
  -v, --version  Show program's version number and exit.
  -m M           Update the main version. If you do not specify version
                 number, Main version will be take it as git branch by
                 default.
  -c C           Update the cache version. If you not specify version number,
                 it would be a self increment number
  -q             quiet mode.
  -lc LC         Update the last default commit

Best Practice

bumpversion is particular useful when you use it with git flow / hubflow. You can call bumpversion -lc 2 every time you are about to close your release or hotfix branch, namely (git flow release finish / git flow hotfix finish). It would automatically record take the branch name as main version and include the last commits log into VERSION.json.

Release History

(Nothing yet)

License

Copyright (c) 2012 Tom Tang
Licensed under the BSD license.