mrversion

Creates a new version identifier to use with your builds and releases.

background and major changess

mrversion based on version-composer by Julian Sangillo The major changes are

• inclusion of github PR support using branch names,
• removal of build numbering,
• major refactoring,
• removal of options
• addition of more exposed variables (including the prefix "v" )

It is no longer compatible with original and extensively rewritten.

Features

• Return as output a version with and without a release tag appended at the end
• Control how your versions are formatted
• Choose what branches you want new versions to be based off of at each stage of development
• Choose what release tags to use at each stage of development
• increase version numbers based on the name of the feature branch at PR clo

Version Format

<prefix><major>.<minor>.<patch>.[.<release-tag>]

<prefix><major>.<minor>[.<release-tag>]

<prefix><major>[.<release-tag>]

Examples

• v2

• v3.2

• v2.3.42.rc

• v3.2.15.unstable

• v2.3.42

Usage

See action.yml

How it knows your latest version?

In order to create the next version, it needs to know what the latest version is. It does this by getting the latest annotated tag in your repo. It then strips off the 'v' character that is prepended to the tag. This string should be numbers separated by periods.

Branching Strategy

Version mrversion assumes that there are three branches in your repo with each branch representing a stage of development. There should be a development branch, an integration branch, and a stable branch. The development branch is the most unstable branch and is used to release new work that has yet to be tested. The integration branch is for features ready to be integration tested. The stable branch is for final production releases. These could be customized to be any branch. The defaults for development, integration, and stable are dev,int, and main branches respectively.

Github flow

only changes to development branch via Pull requests -> bump version. Integration and main branches follow development versions.

push: new version -> dev
PR: dev -> int
PR: int -> main

Version Bumping

There are 3 different revision types that determine how a version is incremented when a new one is created in the development branch. They are: major, minor and patch. The revision type during execution is based on the commit messages being included since the latest version or the name of the branch of the PR branch It is assumed your commit messages are following the Angular Commit Message Conventions with the addition of 'build' and 'patch' types. Higher priority changes always take precedence. Major changes are always more important than minor ones. Likewise, minor is higher than build and patch, while build and patch are about the same. If none of the commit messages below exist, then it will fall back to the preferred-type. The preferred-type can be either build or patch and changing it will change whether you prefer to use the build value or the patch value for most types of changes. This can be overwridden during execution by specifying build or patch in one of your commits. By default preferred-type is build.

Revision Type	Commit Message	Branch name
Patch Revision	patch: stop graphite breaking when too much pressure applied patch(pencil): stop graphite breaking when too much pressure applied	fix/3-graphite-breakage
Minor Revision	feat: add 'graphiteWidth' option feat(pencil): add 'graphiteWidth' option perf: remove graphiteWidth option perf(pencil): remove graphiteWidth option	feat/4-removeing-graphite-width-option
Major Revision	BREAKING CHANGE: The graphiteWidth option has been removed.<br>The default graphite width of 10mm is always used for performance reasons.	breaking/8-no-more-width-options

Release Tags

The release tag is a string of capitalized ASCII characters marking the version as a type of release based on branch (example: 1.0.0.int). Using release tags are advisable since multiple branches are being used here. It is possible to customize what tags are used for which branches. By default, the dev branch uses the unstable tag, the int branch uses the 'rc' tag, and the stable branch uses no tag. You can enter an empty string for no tag. It is recommended though that all branches have different tags, otherwise there will be conflicting versions.

What about versioning on int and stable branches?

When you merge a pull request (or push into int or production branches), the version is not incremented as you are not introducing a new instance of your project. Instead, you are promoting an already existing version to a higher branch. The only thing that changes in this case is the release tag. Below examples show the flow when the latest version is 2.1.0 and a new build is pushed.

local -> dev

2.1.1.unstable

dev -> int

2.1.1.rc

int -> master

2.1.1

Inputs

stable-branch

Name of branch in your repo that will be used for stable releases. Default is main

int-branch

Name of branch in your repo that will be used for int releases. Default is int

dev-branch

Name of branch in your repo that will be used for development releases. Default is dev

stable-tag

Custom release tag name for stable releases. By default, stable releases have no stable tag.

int-tag

Custom release tag name for int releases. Default is rc

dev-tag

Custom release tag name for development releases. Default is unstable

version-prefix

Prefix for version number. Default is v

Ouputs

full-version

The new version with the release tag appended at the end.

major-version

The new major version only (v)

major-minor-version

The new major.minor

version

Version without the release tag at the end.

tag

release tag

dot-tag

release tag with dot prefix if not empty

version-prefix

prefix for the version number

is-prerelease

True if this version is an unstable release (dev or int branch) or false otherwise.

Setup

The workflows is triggered on a PR close and when the PR is closed AND merged. It needs the fetch-deep 0 to make sure it as enough history. (this may change ). It will tag the checkout version and push it.

Workflow

name: pr-version-bump-ci

on:
  pull_request:
    types: [closed]

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      # Checks-out your repository under $GITHUB_WORKSPACE, so your job can access it
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

      - name: Mr Version
        if: github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.event.action == 'closed' && github.event.pull_request.merged == true
        id: mrversion
        uses: PenCue/mrversion@v0
        # all the defaults
        with:
          stable-branch: master
          int-branch: int
          dev-branch: dev
          stable-tag: null
          int-tag: rc
          dev-tag: unstable
          version-prefix: v

      # Runs a set of commands using the runners shell
      - name: Set Tag
        if: github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.event.action == 'closed' && github.event.pull_request.merged == true
        run: |
          echo Full ${{ steps.mrversion.outputs.full-version }}
          git tag -f ${{ steps.mrversion.outputs.full-version }} $GIT_SHA
          git push --delete origin ${{ steps.mrversion.outputs.full-version }} || true
          git push origin --tags ${{ steps.mrversion.outputs.full-version }} 
          echo -n 
          echo Major Minor ${{ steps.mrversion.outputs.major-minor-version }}
          git tag -f ${{ steps.mrversion.outputs.major-minor-version }} $GIT_SHA 
          git push --delete origin ${{ steps.mrversion.outputs.major-minor-version }} || true
          git push origin --tags ${{ steps.mrversion.outputs.major-minor-version }} 
          echo -n
          echo Major ${{ steps.mrversion.outputs.major-version }}
          git tag -f ${{ steps.mrversion.outputs.major-version }} $GIT_SHA  
          git push --delete origin ${{ steps.mrversion.outputs.major-version }} || true
          git push origin --tags ${{ steps.mrversion.outputs.major-version }} 

See Also