Should releases be a part of this project?

[ScottRobbins]

I keep thinking about how to create automatic versioning and make it work in a CI/CD system well. I keep coming back to the fact that I track what changes are a part of specific versions.

Automatically versioning would require some CI system to make commits and merge in git. This isn't impossible but always seems like friction that I wonder if it's possible to avoid somehow.

[ScottRobbins]

Just jotting down a random thought that I have put less than 10 seconds of consideration into:

Integrate more with git to get the version information from previous tags.

The thing I don't like is that editing or correcting change files for things that have released may not be possible w/o rewriting history. May not be worth it.

[ScottRobbins]

Maybe this is just an issue where I shouldn't be worried about making a bot automatically commit and merge. This tool is designed to avoid merge conflicts and so the rest is just a tooling problem with interacting with GitHub/GitLab