A simple tool to bump version numbers in git. Written as replacement for standard-version, which is deprecated.

go install github.com/perbu/bump@latest

bump starts out by reading all the tags from git. It will discard everything that doesn't look like a version number (v1.2.3, 1.2.3, 1.2.3-alpha.1, etc). It will then sort the versions and pick the highest one. If there are no tags, it will fail.

It will then increment ("bump") the version number according to the command line arguments. If no arguments are given it will default to bumping the patch version.

It will then look for files name .version. If any such files are found in the repository their content will be replaced with the new version number.

These files will then be added to git and committed with a message that includes the new version number. bump will try to access the ssh-agent to sign the commit.

Finally, it will create a new tag in git with the bumped version number.