Yet another set of bash utilities to help with semantic versioning.

I wanted a highly portable tool with no dependency on tools outside of git. In searching the web I found nothing that suited my needs.

It's a shell that I use on Windows and of course Linux. It's also supported on macOS. Many CI/CD tools are built on docker, and therefore, by default, Linux.

I really wanted to, but given that it requires Mono on non-Windows Operating Systems, it's quite the heavyweight to install correctly at the start-up of a container. And since the project I was doing this for is .Net Core, I eschewed putting both tools on the same container, yet I wanted functionality similar to GitVersion. That meant I had to write it.

usage: git-ver [command] [command arguments]

For more details on the individual commands type git-ver help [command]

get-major : Returns the major number from the current semantic version number. (Major.Minor.Patch[-info+metadata])

get-minor : Returns the minor number from the current semantic version number.

get-patch : Returns the patch number from the current semantic version number

get-prefix : Returns the version with a prefix, prefix defaults to 'v'

get-rev : Counts the number of commits from the last tag and returns that as a revision number. (placed in info as info#)

get-semver : Retrieves a full semantic version, optionally with metadata (+r1; +dYYYYMMDD-hhmmss)

get-suffix : gets the suffix for a pre-release semantic version. (e.g. -alpha1)

get-version : Gets the version number in Major.Minor.Patch format

show-locations : Displays the list of directories in use by git-ver.

version or --version : Displays the version of git-ver.

help : Displays this help information.